• October 2014
    Ingram is a wholesaler, as is Baker & Taylor. A distributor is a company that warehouses published books for distribution to retailers. Distributors require a 75% discount to stock books. If one is already giving Ingram 55% while keeping the...
  • October 2014
    In order to utilize a third-party book distributor, the author or publisher has to give a 75% discount off cover price. I have been approached by legitimate distributors in the past, and that is the least they would accept. Unless one is prepared to...
  • May 2013
    Enemies? More like addicts. Returns started for a perfectly valid reason. Publishers extended credit to bookstores in the 1930s because the Depression threatened to destroy the distribution chain. If all the bookstores went out of business,...
  • February 2013
    This isn't intended as a personal criticism, but the information contained here, once again, is really aimed at those who want to self-publish or who may have been signed by an old-school publisher. First, the reason backlist titles don't fare well...
  • November 2012
    The ease of self-publishing at little to no cost has created a body of people who feel they must justify their choice to do so by making traditional publishers (and even nontraditional ones) into a faceless evil entity who treat authors like cattle....

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