Tsu Dho Nimh said:So you are saying that PA didn't permit it?
Or they were handed an opportunity on a silver platter .... and dropped the platter?
I have been looking at book festivals
http://www.book-sales-in-america.com/
Contact the local organizer and see if you could set up an autograph signing. You will have to sell the book for "cost" and let any mark up go to the book drives cause. However you won’t loose anything and it’s a great way for exposure.
PAMB said:Small town public libraries are are usually happy to have a book signing but you should have some of your books. If you can't affort to buy a supply of your book at the 50% discount, you need other options. If the retail price of your book is, for example, $20.00 per copy, you can purchase 50 books from PA for $500.00 on your credit card at 50% discount from the retail price and pay back your credit card within the no interest period, you can make $250.00 profit. Then, use that money you made to keep purchasing more books and selling them at a 10% discount. Always put your profits back in your business. Dinner out is nice but eats up your profits. Always take your two free copies with you everywhere you go and tell people how they can purchase a copy through the Internet bookstores.
Drug stores that have a book section are good places to place a few books. Your local grocery store is a good place too. Try your Dentist's office. Places to market your book are all around you.
triceretops said:Yeah, that's an example of what PA EXACTLY wants their authors to do. Load up on books, ring that credit card dry, with the assumtion that you'll get it all back and more. What a system. PA knows damn well it's a vanity operation and are giggling all the way to the bank. The authors refuse to believe it.
Tri
Drug stores that have a book section are good places to place a few books. Your local grocery store is a good place too.
(My book) is on the Inside the book feature of Amazon. The way I see it is that we are really unknown. No one could basically give a rats behind about what we have written. To me, I am please with the Amazon feature because it does give some clue to what my *** book is about. It has some stories, shows some of my pitiful drawings and lets the viewer have a glimpse.
If I could afford to buy a million books my own self to give away, I would do it. As an author that no one ever heard of, I could have written the best book ever written and no one would know it at all. To me, it is all about getting your book recognized and out there into the wide world. It is just a shame I am so poor!!!
Do not be too upset when you will discover that many bookstores will not even carry your book. Bookstores are really a waste of time and effort to have your book placed on their shelves simply because the only people making the money is the bookstore and the publisher and many times it cost you more than what it is worth.
Your book is already in their store catalogue simply because it is in their online bookstore. So why duplicate the effort?
PAMB said:From Publishers Weekly, some sobering statistics:
In 2004, Nielsen Bookscan tracked sales of 1.2 million books in the US. Of those 1.2 million, 950,000 sold fewer than 99 (yes, ninety-nine) copies each. Another 200,000 sold fewer than 1,000 copies. Only 25,000 books sold more than 5,000 copies. Fewer than 500 sold more than 100,000 copies. Only 10 books sold more than a million copies each. THE AVERAGE BOOK IN THE US SELLS ABOUT 500 COPIES.
Miss Snark said:1. Bookscan, despite its name, tracks ISBN numbers not books. The difference is that you can have several different ISBN numbers for ONE title: hardcover, trade paper, mass market, special editions. Calenders have ISBN numbers too. As an author of one title, you could have three, maybe four ISBN numbers sliding over the scanner and ringing up royalties.
2. Bookscan doesn't measure sales at WalMart.
3. Bookscan itself says it only captures about 70% of the hardcover market, and offers no stats on how much of the paper market it captures.
4. Bookscan measures retail sales, which excludes sales to libraries.
5. There is no such animal as the average book.
Go back to tormenting yourself with sentence structure, back story and the death of chicklit. The state of the industry will be there for you to anguish about later.
To me, it is all about getting your book recognized and out there into the wide world. It is just a shame I am so poor!!!
PAMB said:PA not only has some very good writers in their stable, it may be the last avenue of real writers.
PAMB said:Most of the people in your address books are friends, and if they haven't bought your book by now, they probably won't...so you've got nothing to lose and a good deed to gain. Just write one email, and send it to them all at once.
spike said:Nothing to lose but your friends! Friends don't treat friends like potential sales.
PA not only has some very good writers in their stable, it may be the last avenue of real writers.
endless rewrite said:More mind numbing arrogance from the PAMB:
PAMB said:PA not only has some very good writers in their stable, it may be the last avenue of real writers.
avenue - more of a cul-de-sac
Most of the people in your address books are friends, and if they haven't bought your book by now, they probably won't...so you've got nothing to lose and a good deed to gain. Just write one email, and send it to them all at once.
PA not only has some very good writers in their stable, it may be the last avenue of real writers.
Most of the people in your address books are friends, and if they haven't bought your book by now, they probably won't...
That and I do not require an ego boost by getting all of six books onto the middle shelf way back in the aisles of some bookstore.
James D. Macdonald said:Snipped....
He's quite right: six books in one bookstore (which is close to the best a PA author can hope for) isn't worth much.
Six books on the middle shelf way back in the aisles in half the book outlets in America, with just a 50% sell-through, is 24,000 sales. Does he want to turn down 24,000 sales?