Comment by greenie_beans
Comment by greenie_beans 3 days ago
> try to find some bookstores to sell to directly
bookstores don't wanna carry your book if they can't buy it from a distributor with standard discounts and the ability to return. good luck getting your books from your brand new publishing company carried by ingram. (see https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/p..., which would've been the best chance you had at being distributed, and even then they weren't easy to get into)
Interesting, thanks for the info and link. So what, it would be basically impossible to get a distributor to take books from a new publishing company? Or is it that they could be convinced to do so but likely if the new publishing company made a deal where they picked up more of the costs and/or risk than usual?
Any reason the new publishing company couldn't just be a distributor themselves, and make deals with bookstores allowing for discounts and returns?
I have no issue with the idea of taking losses before making a profit, and if anything I produce is good, I would have faith it would sell eventually. Any returned copies are copies that could be donated to various places, which might hopefully allow word of mouth to spread.