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Does Baker & Taylor Not Like Indie Authors and Publishers?

Does Baker & Taylor Not Like Indie Authors and Publishers?

What’s an author and indie publisher to do when a company … a key player in the book wholesaler field … takes the money for representation and then does zip?
Heads up on Baker & Taylor. I’m getting huge, negative feedback from indie publishers that they have set up accounts with B&T, get accepted, paid the $350 for an indie publisher and then nothing happens. B&T never orders books for its inventory.
Bookstores order books, B&T …

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Your Book Success Is Up to You … and ONLY You!

Your Book Success Is Up to You … and ONLY You!

Your Book Success Is Up to You … and ONLY You!
This week, I send three emails to three separate authors that I had shephered and agreed to co-publish their books about the lack of sales. Publishers don’t love the term, “lack of sales.” None of these authors should have got the “Wake up and smell the book roses … possible death toll bell” from me.
I hated writing them … I hated sending them.
And, I had …

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