Yes. I know, whether you want it or not. LOL So an interested party contacted me recently to ask me about an editor I used and at the same time they let me know they were thinking of self-publishing with Westbow (Westbrook?) Thomas Nelson's POD entity.
After chatting with them I learned they were looking at Westbow due to their Bookstore Advantage Plan, a plan that supposedly offers to have employees actively sell your books to Brick & Mortar bookstores for you. My advice, save your money. Most self-pubbed authors thinks this means that by some miracle a big publisher like Thomas Nelson will be able to use their "clout" to get your POD book in a Brick & Mortar bookstore. Guess again. Not even Thomas Nelson can get your book into a Brick & Mortar bookstore and so you're wasting your money paying them for this. Put your money somewhere else.
Brick & Mortar stores don't stock POD books because they don't have to and they make all their money off books published by the larger publishers. Westbow "marketing" peeps might be able to get some non-affiliated "Christian" bookstore to buy a few of your books but you'll have to make your books returnable and they will come right back at you. You'll eat the profit and eat the book because you'll never see it again (that's pretty much standard with all POD's.
Paying a POD publisher to market your book is a WASTE OF YOUR MONEY!!!!! Don't do it!!!
There. That's my advice for today. ;)
Do know that when I say Brick & Mortar stores I mean the once small bookstores that have grown into modern day Frankensteins as far as who they support. Small and Independently owned Brick & Mortar Bookstores have and always will ROCK!!!!
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