Blog Tag Archives: retail
How Royalties Really Work
Do you ever wonder how people choose where to sell their books online? Or how royalties really work? You’re not alone. Retail sales and royalty income issues are some of the most common questions we get here at Vervante HQ. That’s why we created the ultimate free resource for authors ready to sell their products online and add a new revenue steam to their business. Our free expert guide, "Selling Your Self-Published Book," gives you the straight facts about how to choose between Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Baker & Taylor and the Vervante Bookstore. The best option (or options – yes you can choose more than one place to sell online!) depends on you, your products and your goals, and we outline this for you to help you make the right decision. And for the really juicy stuff - royalties – we show you how to easily keep track of sales, fees and royalties in the Statements section of your Vervante Author Dashboard. This guide brings all the important info together in one place for authors who want to sell their products online, earn extra income, and not be stressed out or confused about the process. We invite you to head on over to the Vervante site to download your free copy at www.vervante.com or you can just click HERE to get it right away.
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How to Sell Your Book Online
Did you know that Vervante can help you list your book for retail sale online in places like Amazon, Barnes & Noble and the Vervante Bookstore? Not only will offering your book online boost your visibility through improved search engine optimization (SEO), it also offers exceptional opportunities for increased sales and supporting your expert status. Here at Vervante, we can help you with everything from listing, orders, and managing sales transactions to printing and distribution. We’ve put together a list of frequently asked questions and answers to create a new free resource for authors called “Selling Your Self-Published Books.” You can download it from our website by clicking on the “Expert Guides” link at the bottom of any of our website pages. Here is a sampling of some of the questions we address: How to submit your book or e-book for retail sales Instructions and investment costs for converting a book to an e-book The 7 online sites where we can list your book or e-book for sale Information about ISBNs and UPCs Integrating current sales pages into a cohesive sales stream with other retail sites Click here to open the expert guide directly or head on over to the website and you’ll find it in our library of expert guides and resources located at the bottom of each web page.
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Demystifying GraceNote
Easy tips to make sure your CD tracks are always named correctly If you have produced a CD – or are planning on one in the near future, it’s important that you understand the important of adding Gracenote to your project to ensure that the message in your CDs comes through loud and clear. A universally-recognized, easy-to-use, online track-listing database, Gracenote allows authors to register each of their tracks for free and assign information to each one including author, album, genre and track titles. Once the information for a CD has been submitted to Gracenote, the data will be available to anyone who has a copy of the same CD- and best of all, it’s FREE! Our new expert guide for using Gracenote, available in the Resource Library on our website, shares simple instructions for registering your audio files so that you can rest confident knowing that your music or your message are coming across loud and clear – in every way. ** To access the Gracenote Expert Guide in our Resource Library, just click HERE.
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How Vervante Can Help With Book Sales
One of the most frequently asked questions we hear regards the part of the process that comes AFTER we help you publish your book - Sales. Vervante offers resources and assistance to all our our authors for easy and efficient sales options for your book - and any of the products we help you create. We can add your book to the following channels for direct sales - and have provided a quick overview of each option as well as direction for achieving the best results: Vervante Bookstore Amazon.com Barnes & Noble.com Barnes & Noble Nook Baker & Taylor Amazon Kindle Vervante Bookstore is a great option if you don’t want the hassle of setting up a sales page, website or merchant bank for credit card processing. We will be happy to sell your book or product through our public bookstore. There is a 10% per transaction fee. You set the retail price for the product. The buyer selects and pays for the shipping and postage. Each month we will reconcile sales of your products and send you a statement. We will give you a quote for the production cost for your product. You set the retail price and the difference less the 10% fee is your profit. Amazon Marketplace is the most popular option for Amazon because it only takes a 15% discount plus $1.35 per transaction fee. We receive the orders when your book or product is purchased on Amazon. The transaction is entered in your order report in your author account so you will see all transactions. Amazon pays Vervante for transactions and we will reconcile your Amazon purchases with your monthly invoice. You set the retail price for the book in Amazon Marketplace. (**We highly recommend Amazon Marketplace – see our note below) Amazon Advantage is a consignment program with Amazon. When we list your book in this program, Amazon will order usually 1-2 initial copies for their inventory. When the book is sold, Amazon will ship the book directly to the customer and will take a 55% discount on the retail price of the book. You are also responsible for the postage costs to ship the book to Amazon. Barnes & Noble.com is a consignment program. When we list your book in this program, BN.com will order usually 1-2 initial copies for their inventory. When the book is sold, BN.com will ship the book directly to the customer and will take a 40% discount on the retail price of the book. You are also responsible for the postage costs to ship the book to BN.com. Please note: Your book cover must contain the ISBN barcode including the ISBN number PLUS price. This is a Barnes & Noble requirement. Baker & Taylor is one of the largest wholesale distributors in the world. We can list your book in their database and then any book reseller can order and stock your book in their store. Baker & Taylor sells and distributes to book stores, internet and physical locations, such as Amazon, Border, Barnes & Noble, etc. If your book is listed in the Baker & Taylor database, a customer can also special order the book from any bookstore. Baker & Taylor takes a 55% discount off of the price of the book and you pay for shipping to the Baker & Taylor warehouse. There are no pre-orders with this program. Baker & Taylor will only order your book if they have an order for the book. PLEASE NOTE: There are some risks associated with listing your book with Amazon Advantage, Barnes & Noble and Baker & Taylor. They are: Your suggested list price may not be what the book is actually listed for on these sites. These companies may chose to list your book at a discounted price and you may then have a competitive situation where you have the book listed on your site for the full list price and the distributor may be selling it at a discount. If you list your book with Baker & Taylor, Amazon may import this listing and chose to sell your book at a discount. The book on Amazon will show "Out of Stock" and may never show in stock because Amazon might list the book but never order it from Baker & Taylor. **We highly recommend using Amazon Marketplace for a few important reasons: You control the list price The product is never out of stock We ship the product so you know who is buying your book You pay 15% commission plus $1.35 per transaction and you are reimbursed $3.99 for postage and shipping We have full control over the listing so if you want to make changes or update the product description or price, we can do this for you quickly and easily
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