Category Archives: Bookstores

If you’re an author who has a book for sale through Amazon and you don’t have an AuthorCentral account, you’re missing out. Amazon has started giving authors free access to Neilsen BookScan info. If you aren’t familiar with Neilsen BookScan, well… it’s a tracking system that shows retail sales for books. It’s not perfect (it [...]

Is your Marketing Strategy: New & Improved…Tried & True… or Old & Tired…? Recently, Christian Retailing featured an article on “Self-publishing”. It outlined new developments and statistics and included highlighting some “big brand name” publishers who have become involved in self-publishing. And, predictably, it quoted some quite overused and outdated arguments against. But, one quote [...]

Josie Leavitt, owner of an independent bookstore and blogger for Publishers Weekly, posted some helpful tips on getting local independent bookstores to carry your book: As the owner of an independent bookstore, I get approached at least twice a week by self-published authors asking me to sell their books. The world of self-published books has changed [...]