Getting Self-Published books into Book Stores

eranamage:

Informative.

Originally posted on Life Memoirs:

Any self-published author who has tried will tell you how hard it is to get your book into a bricks and mortar book store. Why is this? The following is a conglomeration of some thoughts, ideas and information I have come across in a variety of different places.

First I look at some of the concerns and problems. Then, at the end of this post, share some thoughts on how self-published authors might overcome these issues.

This is slightly longer than I would normally post but I felt the subject deserved a reasonably full consideration.

Costs:

Book stores and distributors do not want to deal with individual self-published authors because of the costs involved. For the same reason libraries usually only order through major wholesalers or bookstores. Although this may be changing as self-published books are now finding their way onto the lists of available books sent to library���

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