Distribute Your Self-Published Book - Part 1<br>
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Judy Cullins c 2003 All Rights Reserved<br>
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Where is your book now? With a distributor? In a book store?<br>
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Or, did it already die an early death after a few months? <br>
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New self-published authors often believe they need a distributor<br>
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to sell a lot of books. They want to use Ingram or Baker to local fairs and talks<br>
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where she could KEEP all the profits.<br>
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Distributors take quite a chunk of money from the author's<br>
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profits too. They charge the author for storage, and when books<br>
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are returned, the author loses those sales, and has to pay the<br>
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distributor too. Authors lose from the bookstores because<br>
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their payment is late or unreliable. Some authors wait way beyond <br>
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90 days. In fact, many just don't get paid. Writers are not always<br>
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good at collections either. These middlemen not only take most<br>
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of the author's profits, they cause much stress too.<br>
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How Can Self-Published Authors Distribute?<br>
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Self-published books include: print books (perfect bound, comb<br>
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bound, print on demand or print quantity needed, or stapled) or<br>
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eBooks (sent over Email through Word or Portable Document Files)<br>
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Local Distribution.<br>
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as your Web site URL, your company address, your toll-<br>
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800 number, your local phone - http://topofblogs.com/tag/local%20phone number, and an order page to <br>
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1.Distribute through the Pr<br>
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-Create a "Power Press Release" (include tips and how-t<br>
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-Get a Feature Story from the M<br>
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-Write a how-to article and su<br>
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2. Distribute through a local Talk Show-Radio and T<br>
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guest speak for another person's teleclass<br>
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Just a phone call away you can reach 100's of pe<br>
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interested in your book's topic. Do some research<br>
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website From my guesting with other exp<br>
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every 2 months, new clients come, new book and telecl<br>
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sales increase to make up half my inco<br>
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On the talk shows or the teleclasses, offer the audi<br>
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a free report to capture their email addresses. You can <br>
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send it through your host and she will distribute that informa<br>
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to her large email list. Of course you include your sales-pul<br>
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signature file at the <br>
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3. Distribute at local talks to groups. Sell your print books at<br>
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back of the room. Take a clip board and capture everyo<br>
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email at the talk. These people become your dedicated s<br>
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force and tell others. Word of mouth takes up to one or <br>
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years, so be patient for results. Check your library for Clubs<br>
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need free speake<br>
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Develop a selling two-sided flyer with testimonials, your <br>
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cover, excerpts, and an ordering coupon. Take books and fl<br>
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with you everywhere. Offer to all you meet, even your dent<br>
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Authors need to be proactive in book promotion bec<br>
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publishers won't do it for them. (Part 2 of this article is available)
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