Email from Ingrams customer care/will post next email
Thank you for contacting us Bonnie. We have forward your question concerning Publishamerica to our Book Buy department. They will reply to you once they have the needed information.
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On October 20, 2005 at 3:51 PM,
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Do you know anything about the following paragraph? Publishamerica authors have been emailed this. We feel they have once again scammed all their authors with this news. On their website
www.publishamerica.com
they say that Ingram is their supplier and they are working with Ingram's to make this happen. Can you verify this?
Following is the email from Publishamerica:
Thank you,
Bonnie Gibson
Dear Author,
Every hour of every business day, bookstores nationwide order and stock a new PublishAmerica title. The store manager has decided to stock it because he believes that the book will sell. As a result, thousands of PublishAmerica books are sitting proudly on bookstore shelves all across the fruited plain.
And they do sell. They sell regardless of whether the bookstore can return unsold copies.
A bookstore's decision to stock a book is generally made by the manager.. A bookstore typically stocks just one percent of the 190,000 new books that are published each year. For bookstores to stock all books published would mean adding 20 feet of new shelf space every day, seven days per week. Therefore bookstore managers must be selective on what books they choose.
Sometimes they base the decision on whether the book is returnable. If the book is not returnable, they sometimes choose not to stock it.
Many of our titles are already returnable. We have been running an experiment with an increasing number of our titles. It appears that once a bookstore has established a book's selling potential, and stocked the book, the store manager's decision is proven right: PublishAmerica books are competitive, high quality, reliably selling books.
Therefore, as of next month, we are making all of our books returnable!
Although many of our titles are currently stocked in stores, you may soon find even more bookstore managers inclined to order and stock your book now that there is zero risk involved for them.
Please bear with us as we must do this gradually, in order to enable our wholesaler Ingram to accurately activate the new status on roughly eleven thousand books that are currently in print, starting with the titles that are selling more than 40 copies in September (libraries and individuals who order more than 40 copies this month are receiving a 40 pct discount; phone orders only at 301 695 1707).
Also, there will be a few exceptions initially, such as full-color picture books, and for the time being this revolutionary experiment will be limited to U.S. bookstores only. We will review the results after a few months and see what, if any, adjustments must be made.
Congratulations on being part of this exciting and revolutionary adventure.
--PublishAmerica Author Support
