Yesterday my local bookseller wrote a note that he was unwilling to work with me through his distributor, Ingram, because he couldn't return unsold books, according to Ingram (one of the biggest distributers). I was appalled because I definitely paid for that service in my original contract with IUniverse.
After a phonecall and email, today I have a note from IU that they had a technical error that created that message, and they are manually trying to change it on all the distributor's lists.
If a bookstore was willing to purchase books through me personally, the discount to them is 40%. Certainly this leaves me with a better profit than the $3 through a distributor. Our local store is willing to do that, and if he can't sell them, he can return them to me. At least there's options!
I have a description of the book that I wrote on Beth's Book Review Blog:
http://bethsbookreviewblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/guest-post-morning-star-author-of.html
It will be fun to see if anything comes of it!
Thursday, February 11, 2010
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