Books in Bookstores

How do books get in bookstores?
Doesn't the owner order them?

Hiw many authors here have their books in bookstores?
Just curious, as usual.

Owners? That would imply independent bookstores. I know of precisely one independent bookstore in my metro area.

Chains buy via their corporate headquarters. The publishers mail them a catalog, or a sales rep visits them. Certain titles are pushed more than others, and some will "lead" the catalog. The corporate buyer goes through the catalog and buys X number of titles for all the stores.

I don't know how much say each manager gets. I'm sure they can order some books of local interest.

Academic books recover most of a publisher's costs from the sales of books to libraries. If books are on a recommended reading list, university bookstores will buy books either directly from the publisher or through a distributor. The rest of the sales are online and from bookstore chainstores (Borders, B&N etc.), bought on consignment from distributors such as Ingrams. The risk to the publisher is far less than the risk to publishers of fiction and non-fiction because of the guaranteed library sales.

Mystery:

My book is in a local Barnes and Noble bookstore and I did not place it there.

If enough customers requested the book, Alice, the store would consider stocking a few copies.

alice wrote:

Mystery:

My book is in a local Barnes and Noble bookstore and I did not place it there.

Did you generate publicity in your town ? Maybe the manager saw an article in the paper or something and then ordered it? Maybe a friend requested it?

11/3/2009

Several book stores here have my book " Dusty,"
in their store, one was a book signing and the
other put it in their store because I approached
them....

Cheers..Joe

This is how Simon and Schuster does it. They operate in similar fashion to other commercial publishers.

My publisher wholesales it's books through both Ingrams and Barker and Taylor, as well as a few others for niche areas like libraries and schools, and Distibooks in Canada. My publisher is large enough to have it's own marketing and sales force (a small publisher in Texas who is reprinting a special edition of my first novel uses Ingram Publisher Services for it's sales and marketing).

This sales force goes out and sells to the various chains and has regional offices that hit the smaller chains and the indies. Sometimes they use Ingram Publisher Services for this. These sales people present catalogs and ARCs to buyers and managers who then will (hopefully) place big orders for the books. Simon and Schuster also sweetens the pot by paying for front table placement, end caps and window displays on certain books.

That's how my books have ended up in bookstore shelves.

Lucky You!



I remember you!

Your publisher is on the ball. They even make donations and let you deduct them from your taxable income.

How did you manage to get them to publish your book?

Why won't you tell us the name of it so we can walk into a bookstore and look at it.

I want to hold it in my hand.

Why do you hang around losers such as we are?

Thanks for the information, Chris! What would we do without you?

Oh if we could only attain to Chris's level of expertise. We would all have it "made in the shade."

Do tell us more.

I would wager you have even been on Larry King.



Aw Phooey! You ran away again.

I'd just like to know why an Apex reviewer is in his avatar.

He/She won't stay around and talk with us.

Who is Chris?

Good question.

11/30/2009

Who are all these lurkers ?


Cheers..Joe

Malcolm wrote:

Who is Chris?

Cturkel, kdu, JCT-- illustrious, knowledgeable, helpful author, extraordinaire.

alice wrote:

Malcolm wrote:

Who is Chris?

Cturkel, kdu, JCT-- illustrious, knowledgeable, helpful author, extraordinaire.

I'm only Cturkel. And I'm fantastically boring and unhelpful. But I make a mean cheesecake.

Welcome back!

Why thank you! NaNoWriMo has kept me out of trouble. Not even time to make cheesecake. No rest for the wicked!

and the righteous don't need it. How do you keep track of yourself?

One minute you are a man the next a woman--must be a challenge.
You keep changing your initials.

Oh well whatever... As you wish.

I'm not anyone but me. One ID. That's it. That's how I keep track of me.

Wait? Is thread becoming about me? Oh goody! I'm an egomaniac! Bring it on!

It's all about you--don't leave, I love to toy with your vacant mind.

Have you written any books lately?

My mind is hollow, thank you. "I am large and contain next to nothing."

I just finished NaNoWriMo. Letting the brains recharge for a while before writing again.

cturkel wrote:

I'm not anyone but me. One ID. That's it. That's how I keep track of me.

Doesn't the Christopher Eccleston avatar confuse you?