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Have you thought about making
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You are off to a very good marketing start with WPS as we
link all our titles into Amazon and several of the biggest book distributors so
you book can be ordered, delivered and the money collected worldwide
The POD system differs from the normal book production and distribution
system.
Copies are printed only when an order is received from you or from the
book trade.
 | We agree the price and margins for the book with you at an early
stage. |
| When your book is ordered in a bookshop, it is printed and delivered to
the purchaser through the appropriate wholesaler and bookshop. This works
almost anywhere in the world. |
| Each quarter, sales are invoiced and money collected by WritersPrintShop and
sent on to you as the self-publisher, according to the terms of our contract
with you. |
We do not operate any warehousing or distribution management. This sales
service only applies to books that have been produced and registered for POD
through WritersPrintshop.
Books which you order for direct delivery to you will require
pre-payment. They will be supplied at the contract price. We can deliver all
over the world, but will need to quote in advance for the shipping costs outside
the UK.
Marketing and Sales
After all your hard work, expense and foregone income, it is
tempting to collapse at this point. Don't. You may have another book
bursting to get out or a stack of bills demanding your attention. It is a tough call but if you want to make a living as a writer or to
have the satisfaction of knowing that people are reading your writing, you
must market it.
This is where the 'SELF' part of self-publishing turns into hard
work.
You like writing but now it is strictly business. You have to do
all those boring things like persuading book buyers and opinion-formers to
listen to you. You will have to confront the big egos of buyers and
reviewers who now control your fate if you want to be a bestseller. It can
be a humiliating and unrewarding business, but as a writer you are
probably emotionally equipped to cope
with rejection! You will also have thought through what you are
doing and decided to go for self-publishing.
Our Print on Demand system makes you sales processing easy.
| A bookshop can order copies of your book through their normal book
distributor or wholesaler. |
| Individuals can go to their favourite bookshop and order it
there. |
| Or they can order a copy via Amazon. |
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Sales
With WritersPrintShop the shoppers can
use their usual supplier.
| Readers can order copies through bookshops |
| Shops obtain their copies through the normal chain of supply |
But you might also want to order some copies to sell, perhaps, at any talks
you give or to use for business or as a textbook for your teaching.
The process of fulfilling a POD order does not involve you, the publisher,
in any extra work. Apart from the very large book chains, a few
specialist book distributors deliver the books that fill most of the shop
shelves. As soon as an order is received, the copies are printed and
distributed. The process is as quick, and in many cases quicker, as moving a
book which is in stock from one warehouse to another.
If you are ordering direct, it normally takes a week to ten days within the
UK, longer for orders to be delivered elsewhere. We can arrange for books
to be printed and delivered anywhere in the world.
WritersPrintShop is responsible for collecting and distributing the proceeds
from the sales of your book,
and dealing with returns or damaged books in accordance with our contract with
you. The administrative load on you is minimal so you can promote your work
and work on your next book.
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