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Doing Publishing Differently to Benefit Our Authors |
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Infinity commissioned Austin S. Camacho, one of our top selling novelists, to write a book about his experiences with Successfully Marketing Print-On- Demand Fiction (read all about it by doing a “search-by-author” at our newly redesigned online bookstore buybooksontheweb.com). Yes, just like Barnes & Noble, we are supporting the publishing of books with a proven market potential and we don’t restrict the sale of this book to our online bookstore. Austin’s book provides real world marketing suggestions to help authors successfully master the unique challenge of selling POD novels.
Infinity Publishing solved the question of which books to make returnable by having a guaranteed return policy for bookstores that covers all books published since the start of business in 1997. When an order is received for the author’s book today, that book is returnable for a full refund for up to one year from the purchase date. There’s no grossly over-priced fee to implement this service nor is there an annual service fee—the tallying up of debits are adjusted with future monthly royalties. We believe future sales of your book will happen, and your book will always be available for printing through our outstanding in-house production department. All Infinity titles have always been available through Amazon.com since our first published book. We were one of the first book publishers to deal directly with the early online bookseller. It is in our mutual interest to have newly released Infinity titles posted on all available bookseller websites as soon as possible. Towards that end, we provide notification to all online booksellers in a very timely fashion. However, all these various websites have many different time requirements for adding new books to their indexed listings. If you discover an error about your book on our website, send an email to Michelle Shane at
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If the problem is with your book’s listing on a bookseller’s site please contact their webmaster directly as the author of the book. You can now add reviews of your book to our online bookstore. Log on, check out your listing and add a few reviews readers have shared with you. I know it’s a popular belief that to get reviews you have to send out galleys to reviewers 4 months before the release date. With this evolving branch of POD book publishing it’s becoming more important to have the book available for sale today than to delay the release while waiting for book reviews. |
