It is inevitable that some copies of your book will be damaged in transit or storage. Often, this damage is minor, but still means that the book can not be sold at full price as new. A creased page, a small crease or tear on the cover or a tiny “ding” to the book’s edge…
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Let Your Characters Market for You in Social Media
Does your heroine have a Twitter account? Why not? Posting to social media sites in the voice of your characters gives you another way to interact with readers and get them involved in your story. This works especially well for series characters, where the character’s relationship with the audience builds with each book. Social media…
Shipping Books by the Case
In addition to shipping individual books to customers, there may be times when you need to ship one or more cartons of books to wholesalers, bookstores, Amazon.com and others. Here are some tips for shipping books so they arrive undamaged and ready for sale. Whenever possible, try to ship in full case lots. If your…
Fulfillment Services
Fulfillment services can take away the hassle of packing book orders, printing labels and standing in line at the post office. They can handle shipping individual books to customers, or larger orders to bookstores and other institutional buyers. You may decide that you need a fulfillment service because shipping books takes too much time from…
Naming Your Book Publishing Company
When you decide to start a publishing company, one of your first tasks will be to choose a good name for your new business. Whether you plan to publish a few of your own books, or grow your new baby to a giant publishing conglomerate, your company name can be an asset or an obstacle….
Selling Books Online from Your Own Website
I started selling my books online from my own website in 1998. For the first couple of years, more orders came in by phone than through the website. What often happened was that someone went to the website, decided to order the book, then called me on the telephone because they did not want to…
POD Publicity – Sell More of Your Print on Demand Book
Print on demand publishing is an easy, fast and inexpensive way to publish your own book. However, unless you promote it is unlikely that you will sell more than a few copies. Heather Wallace can help you to sell more books, with the helpful information in her book, POD Publicity – How to Take a Print…
Christian Book Distributors
Getting a distributor can help you get your book on the shelves of national chains and independent book stores. There are general book distributors, but a better choice for a Christian-themed book might be one of the Christian book distributors. Christian book distributors specialize in representing Christian books, they work primarily with Christian book stores…
ePublish by Steve Weber – Book Review
Ebooks are more popular than ever, with the Kindle, iPhone and other ebook readers being adopted by more people every day. The amazing growth in the ebook market presents authors and publishers with opportunities to reach new customers with their content, sometimes with little or no investment. ePublish: Self-Publish Fast and Profitably for Kindle, iPhone,…
Book Distributors and Self-Publishing with Dan Poynter
Dan Poynter fell into publishing. He spent eight years researching a labor of love. Realizing that no publisher would be interested in a technical treatise on the parachute, he went directly to a printer. The orders poured in, and the author was suddenly a publisher. Dan has since produced over 80 books and revisions, some…