Check out this great post from Stevie Turner’s blog with news for For UK Authors With an Interest in Getting Their Books into Bricks and Mortar Stores
Recently some good news: My local branch of Waterstones on the Isle of Wight is going to add 3 of my books to their Local Interest shelf in January. I had taken copies of Revenge, Lily: A Short Story, and The Donor in to the manager earlier in October to enquire as to whether he would be interested in displaying them, as all 3 feature the Island in some way.
Getting an agreement from a store manager to display your books is also the hardest part, and you’re on your own there I’m afraid. If you take a look at Waterstones’ own application form, it’ll say for authors not to bring their books into the stores as they only work through buyers, but I hadn’t read this when I took mine in as I didn’t go via this route!
I found that books with local interest fare rather…
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Thanks for the share, Don. How does it all work in the US?
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It’s tricky. The big chains like Barnes & Noble have local author sections, but it’s hard to get space. There are some indie book stores that will sell books on a consignment basis, but brick and mortar book stores are a dying breed here.
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Yes, I have to wait until January for my space. As you say, space in the big chains is much sought after.
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