John, publisher's distributors are listed on Ingram iPage because they are the contact name for order fulfillment. If you have a distributor, they are a well-kept secret.
It's not a secret I just don't know what they are so I can tell you.
John, that is not true. Oprah's people charge nothing to review a book. We're piteously small, yet they have one of our books waiting in the wings should the bipolar issue come up again. It cost me a publicity package that included an ARC. They won't accept POD or vanity books because there are no print runs.
First, that is what they told us a while back when we tried to have one of our authors book on the show that would have been a perfect fit for the Alzheimer's show that she did. And YES the producers that we talked to at the time told us JUST THAT! Maybe they have changed their rule on that, I hope they did because it didn't sound fair or right to have to pay out 5k just to have a producer look at the book and go "Nah, but thanks for the money!"
A publicity package, or ARC, sadly I don't know what is involved in that or the cost of putting that together, but if it's a little more manageable that $5000, I don't see why Wandering Sage couldn't do that.
I've herd everyone her knock on POD... do this little experiment, call a "BIG" time publishing, for real, pick up the phone and this not once, twice, but four or five times, call big the big time and million dollar publishing houses. Say "I am a small press, and I was looking to know what kind of printing do you do?" and you know what they will tell you... POD. If you call up and say you're an author, you will get a different response.
Don't tell me "No I won't." either, because I said the same thing to Dave when he told me that. I said to him "What? You're full of it!" And so on speaker phone we made a few calls, and it was proven to me at that time, that even the BIG HOUSE publishers, while they tell you "Nooo, we don't use POD, that's bad, we're so much better than that!" to save costs and money and storage fees, that is EXACTLY what they do now, because they are not STUPID!
Seriously stop knocking POD, it's not something bad, it's awesome, it's great, and it's what 97% of the industry uses now, even if they will bold face lie to you can tell you they don't. Use some social engineering, call and make it seem like you're a publisher too and find out for yourselves as I did.