How Might Christian Book Distributors Help YOU?

Christian Book Distributors exist to help authors market their books to book buyers including chain bookstores, libraries, and retail stores that stock Christian books. Christian book distributors can be a possible key to the success of your book, or they can be the gateway to your demise.  

What Traditional Publishers are good for?

Distribution is one of the most important aspects of your book publishing success. Depending on how you published your book, your need to learn about Christian book distributors will vary. If you publish your book with a major traditional book publisher, they will take care of the distribution of your book for you. In fact, this is one of the major, and I venture to say, only benefits that you have with a traditional book publishing deal.  

Traditional Publishers print up large quantities of your book and market them to their network of book stores through catalog. Your books are sent through these Christian book distributors to individual bookstores around the country. The problem is that your book sits on the shelves of these bookstores ON CONSIGNMENT!

This means that if they don’t sell in stores within a few months, they are taken off the shelves and sent back to the printer. You know what happens to you after that happens to the publisher? You’re fired!   

There are no Shortcuts to Success

So then, traditional Christian publishing companies basically serve as Christian book distributors; as do most all Traditional book publishers. What makes the difference in 5,000 copies of your book being shipped back to you and you selling 300,000 copies is what YOU DO as a marketer for your book.

Many self-published authors look to book distributors as the key to them being accepted in book stores. Indeed, years ago when POD was new and self-published authors were still shunned, it was more difficult to get your book on the self. These days that not that big of an issue for self-published authors. 

Our Book Distribution 

As a self-published author or a traditionally published author, you have to market yourself. If you work with our publishing company to publish your book, for example, we will make your book available for purchase to over 25,000 booksellers worldwide. Your book will be able to be bought through bookstores and over the internet, virtually anywhere in the world. So that’s not the issues with becoming a bestseller; the issue is the buzz for your book.

There are millions of books that are available for purchase, and your book has to find a place in the hearts and minds of people. You will be most effective in marketing your book locally and/or regionally to create strong enough buzz for it.  

Once you have created strong regional, national, or buzz across the spectrum of your niche’, you can then concern yourself with Christian book distributors and what they offer. When people are wanting or demanding your book, that’s when you increase the supply of your book by printing up mass quantities of it and working with Christian book distributors to get it to the retail locations that are demanding your book.  

What most people will do is go to a Christian book distributor and ask them to sell their book, but these companies sell to bookstores, primarily. Bookstores are glad to stock your book. It’s when the books don’t sell but are shipped back to you that the problem comes in. You see, Christian book distributors will sign a contract with you that says that if bookstores send books back, you take them back.     

So you should really be concerned with creating massive buzz for your book but not printing up massive quantities of your book just to have them sitting in the garage. People are able to do this today due to POD (print-on-demand) publishing.

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