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Timothy, contact BookSignings@publishamerica.com, and they'll do the leg work for you. They dealt with 660 bookstores in February alone.

This was a message from infocenter 5 on the PA message board.

Love,
Betty

They also sent out an email that said they were now doing more for their authors, such as book signings and news releases. Don't know if it was sent to everyone or not, but I got it last week.

I got one too.

Ann

Is it possible that they are beginning to do the things they should have done long ago? When the emphasis is changed from authors buying their own books to placement in retail outlets, then I will believe that change has occurred.

No, Abe, nothing has changed. Apart from the fact that fewer authors are setting up book signings, so PA has decided to make it easier for them.

There seems to be a great reluctance to accept that books published by the print-on-demand method have to be sold primarily through the efforts of the authors themselves. DT has given excellent examples of self-publishing successes that have been achieved through the efforts of the authors themselves. They didn't spend money promoting and then sat back waiting for sales to materialise; they went out and sold the books face-to-face.

Spending money on promotion alone will produce more sales but the costs will never be recovered.

POD published authors have to make a decision about what the purpose is when investing in promoting their own books. If you want to build a platform, increase readership and eventually gain a lucrative publishing contract, it might be money well spent. If you just like the idea of more books being out there for the public to read, then spend your money wisely, otherwise you will end up out of pocket.