By Bhadresh Bundela
Marketing your books is a matter of making friends, lots of friends. This site and blog are designed to help you make more friends, sell more books, and have more fun.
If you are into book marketing, self-publishing, selling your books, book publishing, book promotion, e-publishing, selling e-books, free publicity, print-on-demand, POD publishing, writing books, internet marketing, online book publishing, website promotions, writing novels, or promoting books — and you want some free information and resources to help you sell books — you've come to the right website. If you're tired of waiting for others to sell your book, you can take action to market your books without spending a lot of money or committing a lot of time.
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Top 700 Independent Bookstores — This database features 790 stores with address, book buyer, owner, event coordinator, phone, fax, email, website, and more! Cost: $40.00. This data file features an updated list of the largest bookstores that work with authors and buy books from independent book publishers. The list was compiled from industry news, author and publisher recommendations, and extensive research. The report comes as a data file download (your choice of Microsoft Access, Excel, comma-delimited ascii, tab-delimited ascii, d-Base, or rich text format). The data files do require that you know how to use a database or word-processing program. If you find any errors in any listing, we guarantee to hunt down the error and correct it for you immediately.
Book Marketing 105: Choosing a Book Distribution System — This vital mini-guide includes criteria for deciding how you will distribute your books. Also includes complete information on 30 distributors, 4 library distributors, 89 book publishers who also distribute for other publishers, 3 sales representatives to the chains, 27 bookstore wholesalers, 34 library wholesalers, and 23 Spanish-language wholesalers.
