Any information on this LGBT print and e-book publisher? I'm not sending them anything, I'm just doing research on a related matter and BtoB's name came up.
Link: http://www.beautobeau.com/
Link: http://www.beautobeau.com/
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The cover gay and straight fiction by the look of it. I have never seen in of their books in store.
Well, the website banner is certainly unique - covers adorned with the words "title" and "author's name"!
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I'm puzzled by the handy hint about starting up your own e-pub business. I'm also puzzled by BtB's concept of distribution.
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I'm puzzled by the handy hint about starting up your own e-pub business. I'm also puzzled by BtB's concept of distribution.
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Yeah, that's a little odd. They say they can get books into B&N, but they're charging for their pre-press and packaging work as though it's all optional extras, which doesn't fit if they've got a standard distribution deal. If they don't have one, they can only get books into B&N the way Publish America does it: if you give your local B&N a pre-paid special order for the book, they'll procure a copy for you.
Those covers on the top are premade covers I've seen on various cover designers' websites. When you click on the links on the left, GLBT for example, there are book covers and blurbs, but the links to buy the ebook or print book aren't clickable. So if you see a book you think you'd want to buy, you have to go to one of the vendor sites, allromance etc. and then do a search for author or title and by that stage you've probably lost a reader! Would it be that hard to link where the titles are for sale?
Many of our self-published members use "distribution" to mean "getting your books listed at various websites" and if you check out the websites of some of the self publishing service providers (ahem) you'll see that service offered as "distribution". It looks to me as though Beau to Beau is using that same definition of the term.
It's not distribution as I understand it.
It's not distribution as I understand it.
