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Justin
(last edited May 07, 2013 09:17PM)
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May 07, 2013 09:14PM
Where does everyone have their book listed to be purchased? Amazon seems to be the obvious choice whether by choice or not but is in fact a no brainer but where else? There are the companies to which published your book for one but how about other small sites? From experience I just recently had a small indie site similar to this one feature a link to purchase my book..but...it goes to Amazon. So aside from Amazon and your publisher where else is your book available?
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Besides Amazon, the only other website that sells my physical book, only Amazon has my eBook, is Barnes & Noble. Mine is also available in one physical store, the tack shop of a barn I ride at, but it isn't sold online through it.
Before its last KDP Select run, my book was on Kobo as well as Amazon and B & N. After the Select, I placed it back on B & N, but just kind of forgot about Kobo altogether.
My book is available on Lulu (hardback and paperback) as well as Amazon, although the paperback version goes through to Amazon from Lulu. Lulu also push the ePub version to Barnes & Noble and iBook, although this mode has yet to produce any sales!I started with KDP and the Kindle version has at least been downloaded quite a lot, especially when it was free!
I have yet to attempt a book store as the costs preclude ordering in stock.
My books are available at Smashwords, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookiejar, iTunes, and my free book is available all over the place because people have downloaded it and are offering it all over the web. I don't mind. It's free.
My books are on Amazon, B&N, and everywhere that Smashwords distributes -- which includes (at least) Kobo, iBookstore, Sony, Diesel (?) and Page Foundry (?).
My book is on Amazon Kindle, the iBookstore, Sony, Barnes &Noble, Kobo, Baker & Taylor, Copia, Gardner's and eBookpie. It is Bookbaby who looks after the distribution.
Http://www.Amazon.com/Thin-Ice-storie...
Johanna van Zanten
Http://www.Amazon.com/Thin-Ice-storie...
Johanna van Zanten
Im noticing alot of people saying their book are on Smashwords, Kobo and B&N which makes me wonder..Can you have your book available on Smashwords if you didnt use them to publish it and you went with CS?
What is Kobo?
Ive heard by many self pub authors that B&N doesnt take a liking to self pub and indie authors so how have you all gotten them to feature your book?
Very interesting responses
Justin, to have your book on Smashwords, you have to publish with them. They will then, if you choose, distribute the ebook to Kobobooks, iBookstore, B&N, and others (or just some of those). (Kobo is an up-and-coming online bookstore, I believe.)If you publish a paperback through CreateSpace, and pay the $25 for extended distribution, they'll send it to barnesandnoble.com, which will list it. (I think the same is true with Lightning Source and/or Lulu, but haven't used either.) Getting it in B&N bookstores is another story, though one can sometimes sweet-talk the manager into carrying it, particularly if one has some connection to the particular store.
BTW, in the unlikely event that anyone is keeping track, I'll probably be putting the ebook of Twin-Bred into KDP Select in a week or so, which means yanking it from all the other online outlets.
Another voice chiming in with Amazon/B&N/all Smashwords affiliates; the books are also in paperback through CreateSpace.I can't say I'm sure if or how I am featured in either of the big two e-stores; I'd guess that I am not! However, the first volume of my trilogy is free, so that does provide some publicity simply through people searching free books.
My book is available athttp://booklocker.com/books/5692.html
and on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com and several other internet sites in
hardback, paperback, and ebook forms.
My current book (and the one that will release July 1) will be available through Amazon, B & N, and the Ingram Distribution network. Unless I am specifically pushing the marketing from my end, sales tend to stay flat due to the vast numbers of books available out there. I am my own publishing company, so I can't blame anyone but me.
My books are in Amazon and Smashwords Premium Catalogue. Because of this last, they also do appear on B&N, Nook, Sony, Kobo, Apple iBook store, Lulu, Book Repository, and many others.As paperback it is distributed by CreatSpace to other paperback retailers as well.
My book "Free My Heart of Grief to Love" is available as eBook through Smashwords, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and Apple iBookstore. The paperback is available at Barnes and Noble and any bookstore or library as it is available through Ingram. Request it at your favorite bookstore.
Hey fellow authors, how about asking Amazon (their FB page)to please TRANSFER your REVIEWS to ALL their websites! They won't do it at the moment but I posted a request for them on their Amazon FB page to do so and I got a very promising response. I am just ONE.I figured if each and every author out there started to post such a request on the Amazon FB page we might get somewhere. They have each of our books on ALL their sites, why not our reviews. Please try, it will make a difference. Thank you.
Greer wrote: "Hey fellow authors, how about asking Amazon (their FB page)to please TRANSFER your REVIEWS to ALL their websites! They won't do it at the moment but I posted a request for them on their Amazon FB p..."Good initiative, Greer. I'm going to look for you and support you there, although if your book is on Amazon.com first, then the reviews do appear on the other sites as a beta functionality.
Karen wrote: "Justin, to have your book on Smashwords, you have to publish with them. They will then, if you choose, distribute the ebook to Kobobooks, iBookstore, B&N, and others (or just some of those). (Kobo ..."Okay that makes sense. I say on average an authors book should be available in at least three places, Your publisher(self-pub included), Amazon and a third party source.
Amazon is a must given they are owners of 25% of all things via internet lol. Having your book available in multiple places is good although I believe someone earlier in this thread said you don't want it available at too many places cause then the price will drop on the main ones and you and your company lose money.
I know my first book is on tons of places and on Amazon it's listed at just around $4.00, dropping from a whopping $18 back two years ago.
My books are available at amazonhttp://www.amazon.com/Forgiving-Cance...
http://www.amazon.com/Hostile-Affairs...
and my quit smoking book is available at www.jerriaubry.blogspot.com and I have a free ebook right now available for joining so check it out.
