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- Herausgeber: WS
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Serie: Short Publishing Guides for Indie Authors
- Sprache: Englisch
Do you think libraries don’t buy books from self-published authors? Think again.
In a 2016 survey conducted by US-based library service New Shelves Books, 92 percent of librarians reported they regularly purchase from self-published authors and small presses.
Clearly, librarians are buying self-published books that fit their acquisitions guidelines.
And libraries are full of avid readers. This Quick and Easy Guide from the AskALLi team at the Alliance of Independent Authors tells you all you need to know to get your book onto library shelves worldwide.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
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YOUR BOOK IN LIBRARIES WORLDWIDE
SHORT PUBLISHING GUIDES FOR INDIE AUTHORS
BOOK 2
ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT AUTHORS
Copyright © 2019 Alliance of Independent Authors
The authors’s moral rights have been asserted.
All rights reserved.
Font Publications is the publishing imprint for Orna Ross’s fiction and poetry and the Go Creative! books and planners and Alliance of Independent Authors publishing guides by Orna a. Ross.
All Enquiries: [email protected]
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YOUR BOOK IN LIBRARIES WORLDWIDE
E-book: 978-1-913349-72-1
Paperback: 978-1-913349-73-8
Large Print: 978-1-913349-82-0
Hardback: 978-1-913349-32-5
Audiobook: 978-1-913349-35-6
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CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Why Libraries?
2. The Opportunity in Ebooks and Audiobooks
3. Getting Paid: How Libraries Buy Books
4. Preparing Your Approach
5. Making Your Approach
6. Once Your Book is Stocked
7. Other Ways of Earning
8. ALLi Members Say
9. Summary
Acknowledgments
Your Next Step
Other Guides
About the Author
INTRODUCTION
Do you think libraries don’t buy books from self-published authors? Think again.
In a 2016 survey conducted by US-based library service New Shelves Books, 92 percent of librarians reported they regularly purchase from self-published authors and small presses.1 A search of WorldCat, the outward-facing catalogue of the library system, reveals that titles published by KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing), Smashwords, and Ingram (Lightning Source and IngramSpark) are all available in libraries.
Clearly, librarians are buying self-published books that fit their acquisitions guidelines.
In chapter one, we discuss this topic in detail but it should be said from the start that although libraries do have a book purchasing budget, and it is possible to get a direct boost in sales, getting your book into libraries is not so much about generating short-term income. Its real value is long-term exposure and discoverability, being found by new readers.
Alliance of Independent Authors
This guide to getting your book into libraries is one of the Alliance of Independent Author (ALLi) Quick & Easy guidebooks. These advice guides rely heavily on the group wisdom and experience of ALLi members and advisors.
The advice has usually been published first on our blog, which is written by our members and also draws on discussions in our member forums, and interviews with members and advisors about their inspirations and experiences.
All this advice is generously and freely shared within, and beyond, our non-profit CIC (Community Interest Company) with the intention of paying it forward and benefitting other indie authors.
Our alliance offers many member benefits including: discounts, guidebooks, member forums, contract review, motivation, education, support and more. If you haven’t yet, is it time you joined us?
AllianceIndependentAuthors.org
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1https://blog.reedsy.com/libraries-self-publishing-authors/
WHY LIBRARIES?
As an indie author, you’re looking for more readers. What do we talk about when it comes to marketing and driving sales for our books? Find your readers, reach your readers, go where your readers are. And who goes to libraries? The most avid of readers.
Your keenest readers are likely to be already in the library.
Does it surprise you to know that Americans, for example, go to the library more often than they go to the movies (1.35 billion visits to the library compared to 1.24 billion movie theater admissions). 1
According to Pew Research Center, 46 percent of adults ages eighteen and older report visiting a public library or bookmobile in the previous year.2 And our largest demographic cohort, Millennials, are more likely to have done so than any other generation, using the library not just to borrow, but for discovery.
So if you’re looking to reach readers who are mobile and digital, libraries are the best place.
Up to 60 percent of millennials will check a book out of the library and go buy it after, in print or in digital. If you’re looking to grow readership, libraries are where readers are.
ALEXIS PETRIC-BLACK, OVERDRIVE
Petric-Black, in conversation with ALLi at Digital Book World 2019, says when a library buys your book, it’s like they’re paying you to market your book.
Libraries are not going to allow you to retire early, but they will allow you to get money to get income and advertise your book for free. When you think of every single library and they all have a new in this week, new in this month, a librarian pick, you know whenever it comes out, you will be on the front page of a library's website.
AMY COLLINS, NEW SHELVES BOOKS
Research by BookNet Canada and reported in 2019 by Porter Anderson in Publishing Perspectives3 suggests that library patrons buy three times as many books as compared to book buyers who do not visit libraries.
BookNet’s research, while specific to Canada, also highlights that the public library is the fourth most popular way readers in general discover new books, especially ebooks and digital audio.
Librarians Love Books — and Authors
Most librarians love or are at least sympathetic to authors. Some are even authors themselves. It’s hard to think of another sector where staff think authors are the bee’s knees.
That makes librarians significant influencers in the book ecosystem. Even if a library only has one copy of your book, word of mouth and reviews from a librarian cannot be underestimated.
How Many Libraries Are There?
Just as you can find ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors) members on all continents, libraries of all kinds are to be found everywhere.
There are 2.5 million4 national, academic, public, community, school and corporate libraries worldwide and they’re an important cultural touchstone for readers and writers alike.
