Be realistic, embrace retail reality, and find those readers!

Greetings from Crippled Beagle Publishing headquarters in Knoxville,Tennessee. Speaking of Tennessee, did you know that La Vergne, Tennessee, is hometo Ingram Industries? Ingram leads the WORLD in book distribution. CrippledBeagle Publishing uses a combination of Ingram (through subsidiary IngramSpark)and Amazon-owned Kindle Direct Publishing to distribute clients’ books.

Ingram wholesales to over 40,000 retailers, includingretailer Amazon.com. According to Statisica.com, Amazon has WELL over 2 BILLIONwebsite visits per month.

While we all love libraries and bookstores, Amazon.comoffers an easy and economical route for readers to buy books, granting youincredible opportunities to grow readership, especially if you are puttingconsistent time and energy into your marketing efforts. The fact is that themajority of books are sold on Amazon.com.

This bar chart shows how important Amazon is to independentauthors across the world. (I’ve actually heard many times that Amazon sales arecloser to 80%, and I don’t doubt it.) I don’t like that brick-and-mortar bookstoresare struggling, but I do like that busy authors can economically focus their effortson online marketing and grow readership. Amazon understands this, which is whyKindle Direct Publishing is the preferred print-on-demand distributor AND whyAmazon and KDP provide many tools to help authors succeed. TIP: When you marketyour book online, be sure to include the URL (web address) that takes readersto your website or your buying page on Amazon.com. Make doing business with youeasy😊.

If you’d like to read the article behind this graphic,visit: Chart:Amazon Dominates Book Sales Almost Everywhere | Statista (https://www.statista.com/chart/28042/...).

HAPPY MARKETING!

Jody