| What bookseller policies do you have in place to encourage the sales of my self-published book? |
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We care about bookstore sales - we earn our profit selling books! We offer a full trade discount, and we sell Infinity published books to stores on a returnable basis. This service gives our authors a considerable advantage because many bookstores will not order your book unless the book publisher has an acceptable return policy. Infinity's return policy is one of the most liberal in the entire book publishing industry and includes museums, gift shops, libraries, and schools. Many other book publishers do not accept store returns, or they charge authors hundreds of extra dollars annually to make their books returnable. We don't charge an extra nickel to you or the stores, which is why we have outstanding relationships with thousands of authors and booksellers throughout the nation. Special topic niche books sell especially well through stores specializing in serving the needs of the niches. Corporations are often interested in purchasing niche books in significant numbers if the book contains a sponsorship page with a message from the sponsoring corporation. The sponsor gives the books to their potential customers in the niches. Infinity’s Corporate Sponsorship Page makes this book marketing opportunity possible. You find a corporation interested in sponsoring a quantity of your books, and Infinity Publishing will finalize the arrangements and close the deal. This is at no cost to Infinity authors – the sponsor pays and our author earns a handsome royalty. Earning a fair profit is essential for print on demand publishers and self publishing companies to stay in business. What you need to know in making your selection is how they earn their profit. Legitimate book publishers earn their profit by selling the books they produce and distribute to bookstores and the general public. However, some book publishing business models are structured to make a large portion of their profit from selling self publishing services and from authors buying their own books. Their high prices and low discounts aren’t workable to provide booksellers with enough of an acceptable profit margin for them to handle their books. Our print on demand self publishing company earns a fair profit from selling books to retailers and to the general public, and a functioning business model in place where a share of the profit is used to develop and implement more direct services and additional benefits for our self publishing authors. |