That's right. There have been a few others ATTEMPTING to do a BRICK & MORTAR book signing and broadcasting it live via whatever platform providing the guest with a signed electronic CARD or label they can PASTE into their PRINT book should that be what they order.
My Virtual Book Singing will be the first ever and probably only one of its kind for quite a while where you receive, shortly after the signing, your very own personally signed DRM Free PDF to be converted into whatever format is your preference via one of many sites out there that allow this.
The up side, I don't have to go near a large "bully" book store and YOU get an ebook signed to YOU or to whoever you'd like it signed to with a personalized message. Just wanted to clarify that. No other author or publisher has offered this to date.
Here's the link once more in case you need it. ;D
Hope to see you there!
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Oops! Sorry About the Shipping.
I added the two new links over in the side-bar and forgot to take the shipping off. So for all you thousands of folks who went to order the personalized DRM free PDF from the link, there is no longer any shipping added.
Same goes for those of you, (millions I'm sure) who went to order the print version of Never Ceese that comes with the same personalized DRM free PDF that you can convert ALL day long to whatever format you need.
Do keep in mind that for right now using these two links are the ONLY way to get the DRM free personalized PDF and official signed print book. But that will change shortly. ;)
Monday, February 21, 2011
Kindle version of Never Ceese!
What's that you say? Never Ceese is now available in the infamous KINDLE format? Has Sue Dent lost her mind?
That's right folks, Never Ceese is now available in KINDLE format and not through Amazon!!! Simply go to this link here. Say it once, say it twice, say it three times.:
SmashwordsSmashwordsSmashwords
and purchase Never Ceese in a variety of e-book formats including but not limited to Kindle. Straight from the publisher, Black Bed Sheet Books via Smashwords.
The jokes on you too Amazon, as you won't be giving this Kindle away for FREE via your little "Lending Library" scheme that you force Kindle publishers to participate in just so Amazon can sell more Kindle e-readers.
So off you go people with Kindles and every other e-reader device. The future is here and so are the e-books.
That's right folks, Never Ceese is now available in KINDLE format and not through Amazon!!! Simply go to this link here. Say it once, say it twice, say it three times.:
SmashwordsSmashwordsSmashwords
and purchase Never Ceese in a variety of e-book formats including but not limited to Kindle. Straight from the publisher, Black Bed Sheet Books via Smashwords.
The jokes on you too Amazon, as you won't be giving this Kindle away for FREE via your little "Lending Library" scheme that you force Kindle publishers to participate in just so Amazon can sell more Kindle e-readers.
So off you go people with Kindles and every other e-reader device. The future is here and so are the e-books.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
My thoughts on the current trend of large bookstore closings!
Large bookstores were once small bookstores who helped large publishers get their books to readers. When technology changed and made it easier and less costly to publish, along came small publishers. Large bookstores refused to acknowledge the change. Large publishers were fine with this. It limited the competition. Large bookstores weren't about to bite the hand that has fed them so long. But I'll bet they never expected that same hand to actually starve them to death and then come back looking for the scraps. Funny how that worked out. And I don't mean funny ha-ha either. :(
For those of you who say that technology ruined the publishing industry, you couldn't be more wrong. Technology has leveled the playing field and so to all those large bookstores who are collapsing under their unwillingness to embrace small and self published authors and to all large publishers who can't figure out which way to turn now, I have only this to say and you should just be glad you can't hear me sing it. . .
Welcome to the Jungle!
You can have anything you want but you better not take it from me.
For those of you who say that technology ruined the publishing industry, you couldn't be more wrong. Technology has leveled the playing field and so to all those large bookstores who are collapsing under their unwillingness to embrace small and self published authors and to all large publishers who can't figure out which way to turn now, I have only this to say and you should just be glad you can't hear me sing it. . .
Welcome to the Jungle!
You can have anything you want but you better not take it from me.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Nice eye-opener for Small Publishers.
I just called a Barnes & Nobles in Georgia to see if they, because sometimes individuals stores do, allow for Small Press authors to come in on conssignment since B&N corporate discourages, frowns on and otherwise makes it impossible for Small Press publishers to come into the stores and was told this (I am paraphrasing as I don't remember word for word):
CRM: Since you're a local author--
Me: I'm not local.
CRM: Small publisher, (actually that was word for word so far) then we would have to call our district office (maybe home office. Basically "B&N are Us") and have you approved and they only approve large publishers.
Me: Actually I already know that but have run into a few B&N's who will still take books on consignment from a Small Publisher. Just calling around to see if I might stumble across one.
CRM: Actually their phasing the in-store CRM's out. A lot of us have been laid off and the ones they've kept are for outside sales, like schools and businesses. They're working toward no more in-store events. Maybe you can find another store that does this.
Me: Based on what you just told me I'm sure I won't waste my time.
So there you have, B&N has regulated Small Publishers, not to the back burner, but out of the running altogether thus showing their true colors. Fine. The big publishers saved your butt once, let them go down with the ship.
CRM: Since you're a local author--
Me: I'm not local.
CRM: Small publisher, (actually that was word for word so far) then we would have to call our district office (maybe home office. Basically "B&N are Us") and have you approved and they only approve large publishers.
Me: Actually I already know that but have run into a few B&N's who will still take books on consignment from a Small Publisher. Just calling around to see if I might stumble across one.
CRM: Actually their phasing the in-store CRM's out. A lot of us have been laid off and the ones they've kept are for outside sales, like schools and businesses. They're working toward no more in-store events. Maybe you can find another store that does this.
Me: Based on what you just told me I'm sure I won't waste my time.
So there you have, B&N has regulated Small Publishers, not to the back burner, but out of the running altogether thus showing their true colors. Fine. The big publishers saved your butt once, let them go down with the ship.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Why are large chain bookstores going under?
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Note: facts suggest that Christian chain bookstores are going under for a completely different reason than the one given here since they weren't around during the depression. I may blog about that later.
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As with anything, there are many opinions out there but I tend to gravitate to finding the facts. Not that it will keep things from happening the way they're happening but at least, armed with the facts, I can help others understand should they want to.
Many businesses seem to be failing in light of the internet or the ability for others to provide something digitally and quicker than the brick-and-mortar store. And while I'll agree with this theory in part I do not feel it is the primary reason for the demise of larger bookstores.
Does it matter what I think? No, not really but if you read on you'll at least know why I feel the way I do and perhaps you'll sleep better tonight.
Here's an excerpt I've posted before from an article I link to quite frequently. Since it is in an on-line encyclopedia it is unbiased and can't readily be pulled or changed due to my linking to it. I only point this out because many articles I find on the internet now lead to dead links having been moved all together. While I say that I'm not worried about this link going anywhere, I've copied it none-the-less. It has valuable information in it. Here's the link and here's the excerpt:
"The Great Depression of the 1930s hit the book publishing industry as hard as it hit every other sector of the American economy. Booksellers at that time were mostly small local businesses, and to help them survive the economic hardships of the depression, Simon and Schuster invented a system allowing booksellers to return unsold copies of books for credit against future purchases."
(Warning long sentence coming up. Read with caution.) I typically use the above excerpt to point to the reason why once-smaller-now-larger bookstores don't give a poop about small pubbed authors while pointing out that it is this return policy that bites small press in the butt so that they have to make books non-returnable just to keep once-smaller-now-larger bookstores from taking them down which as a result keeps once-smaller-now-larger bookstores from ordering small press books because they can't return them whenever they darn well please causing small press to eat the print cost of their book because AS WE ALL KNOW, no POD publisher wants to pay for shipping of the returned-from-the-bookstore books to be sent back to them. (long sentence over.)
Today I will use the excerpt to point to a much different issue. If large publishers cared so much back in the depression that one of them, Simon & Schuster and subsequently the others for sheer survival--broke protocol and created a return policy that would help the bookstore more than the publisher, then why aren't they acting today? These are THEIR bookstores. The same ones from the depression.
Where is the call to arms? I don't see it? The larger chain bookstores of today are the once-small bookstores of yeasteryear. Where are these wonderfully gracious publishers?
Many still point to ebooks as being the demise of the brick-and-mortar bookstores. I say "nay-nay." I say that if larger chain bookstores embraced and worked with small press (afterall there are more of us than them) the same way they work with larger publishers or at least offer us something as lucrative, they most likely wouldn't be in the shape they're in today.
I'm certain that large publishers (starting with Simon & Shuster) meant well by offering the hang-by-the-neck-until-dead (for small press anyway) return policy but after reading the above excerpt, one has to wonder at their motive. Okay, maybe not everyone but I certainly do.
Small press publishers might help but it's difficult to do this when the door is shut and locked to their presence. I'll not mention the insults that are heaped upon small press when they actually attempt to ask for the type of agreement larger bookstores share with larger publishers. Ooops.
I hate to see this happen as I hate to see any large entity go down but it's their own fault . . . in my opinion.
Oh and since small press books are swatted down at every turn, here's the best place to go to find Black Bed Sheet Books recently published edition of Never Ceese
Buy Never Ceese here!
Hey, if I didn't tell you, how would you know?
Note: facts suggest that Christian chain bookstores are going under for a completely different reason than the one given here since they weren't around during the depression. I may blog about that later.
*******
As with anything, there are many opinions out there but I tend to gravitate to finding the facts. Not that it will keep things from happening the way they're happening but at least, armed with the facts, I can help others understand should they want to.
Many businesses seem to be failing in light of the internet or the ability for others to provide something digitally and quicker than the brick-and-mortar store. And while I'll agree with this theory in part I do not feel it is the primary reason for the demise of larger bookstores.
Does it matter what I think? No, not really but if you read on you'll at least know why I feel the way I do and perhaps you'll sleep better tonight.
Here's an excerpt I've posted before from an article I link to quite frequently. Since it is in an on-line encyclopedia it is unbiased and can't readily be pulled or changed due to my linking to it. I only point this out because many articles I find on the internet now lead to dead links having been moved all together. While I say that I'm not worried about this link going anywhere, I've copied it none-the-less. It has valuable information in it. Here's the link and here's the excerpt:
"The Great Depression of the 1930s hit the book publishing industry as hard as it hit every other sector of the American economy. Booksellers at that time were mostly small local businesses, and to help them survive the economic hardships of the depression, Simon and Schuster invented a system allowing booksellers to return unsold copies of books for credit against future purchases."
(Warning long sentence coming up. Read with caution.) I typically use the above excerpt to point to the reason why once-smaller-now-larger bookstores don't give a poop about small pubbed authors while pointing out that it is this return policy that bites small press in the butt so that they have to make books non-returnable just to keep once-smaller-now-larger bookstores from taking them down which as a result keeps once-smaller-now-larger bookstores from ordering small press books because they can't return them whenever they darn well please causing small press to eat the print cost of their book because AS WE ALL KNOW, no POD publisher wants to pay for shipping of the returned-from-the-bookstore books to be sent back to them. (long sentence over.)
Today I will use the excerpt to point to a much different issue. If large publishers cared so much back in the depression that one of them, Simon & Schuster and subsequently the others for sheer survival--broke protocol and created a return policy that would help the bookstore more than the publisher, then why aren't they acting today? These are THEIR bookstores. The same ones from the depression.
Where is the call to arms? I don't see it? The larger chain bookstores of today are the once-small bookstores of yeasteryear. Where are these wonderfully gracious publishers?
Many still point to ebooks as being the demise of the brick-and-mortar bookstores. I say "nay-nay." I say that if larger chain bookstores embraced and worked with small press (afterall there are more of us than them) the same way they work with larger publishers or at least offer us something as lucrative, they most likely wouldn't be in the shape they're in today.
I'm certain that large publishers (starting with Simon & Shuster) meant well by offering the hang-by-the-neck-until-dead (for small press anyway) return policy but after reading the above excerpt, one has to wonder at their motive. Okay, maybe not everyone but I certainly do.
Small press publishers might help but it's difficult to do this when the door is shut and locked to their presence. I'll not mention the insults that are heaped upon small press when they actually attempt to ask for the type of agreement larger bookstores share with larger publishers. Ooops.
I hate to see this happen as I hate to see any large entity go down but it's their own fault . . . in my opinion.
Oh and since small press books are swatted down at every turn, here's the best place to go to find Black Bed Sheet Books recently published edition of Never Ceese
Buy Never Ceese here!
Hey, if I didn't tell you, how would you know?
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Books ordered!
So I ordered a box of books of Never Ceese from Black Bed Sheet Books and am ready to sell! The books should be here in about a week or two so get your order in now. I would be more than happy to come to your area to sign books but can only do so if I don't lose money (because how fair is that?) That means you can have an Independent bookstore get in touch with me or give me information about an Independent bookstore in your area so I can see how they work with small pubbed authors. Libraries are nice too. Some of those allow signings and who doesn't like to support libraries.
Do keep in mind that all chain-bookstores such as Barnes & Noble and Borders or whoever can order Never Ceese, the newest Black Bed Sheet Edition but they won't order POD published books or rather small press books unless someone is buying them. And as an added rub, they won't let small publishers sell on commission either. It's always lovely when a bookstore operates under the guise that they're out to support all publishers yet they keep over 75% of the publishers off their shelves because they were never set up to make money off of them. And chain bookstores wonder why they're all going under. Their wonderful distributors Ingam *cough, cough* and Baker & Taylor *cough, cough* aren't any more accommodating either asking small publishers to play the large publishers game as if they can. Ah, but that's okay they're just doing their job, right?
Sooooo, don't look for my books in chain bookstores and don't look for them on best-sellers list because as you should know all the official best-sellers list are determined by how many books chain bookstores (and actually Indy bookstores too) buy from the large publishers. It isn't based on how many sell to customers. That's why you rarely see small press authors on these lists. Chain bookstores don't order these books in mass. They ignore small pub authors.
But yes, let's get us a tour going, shall we. Let me know and we'll see what happens.
Love y'all!
Oops! Almost forget. "Christian" bookstores are out of the question too because though both of my books have been approved by Spring Arbor for distribution to the Christian market, 99.9% of all Christian bookstores are actually "Christian" or rather CBA member bookstores and they don't allow any book in unless it's published by a fee-paying member publisher. That's so they can be assured the content is censored so that it only appeals to their core market readers. There are few Christian bookstores that aren't member bookstores. But that's because all general market bookstores carry and have carried Christian books forever and there was no need. It's actually still that way. So no, I can't get into a Mardel's or a Lifeway or any other member bookstore despite many of my readers looking for my books there and in spite of going through the trouble of having them approved. Sorry. I tried. It ain't happening. Ironically, I had the edition of Never Ceese that I published through S D Enterprises "unapproved" after I learned it actually served no real purpose to be "approved" and it's still showing up for sell on some sites that can't sell books unless they are approved which basically means Ingram/Spring Arbor doesn't operate the way they state they do which is no real surprise. Never Ceese should not show up as available to any Christian bookstore. I had it pulled months ago.
Do keep in mind that all chain-bookstores such as Barnes & Noble and Borders or whoever can order Never Ceese, the newest Black Bed Sheet Edition but they won't order POD published books or rather small press books unless someone is buying them. And as an added rub, they won't let small publishers sell on commission either. It's always lovely when a bookstore operates under the guise that they're out to support all publishers yet they keep over 75% of the publishers off their shelves because they were never set up to make money off of them. And chain bookstores wonder why they're all going under. Their wonderful distributors Ingam *cough, cough* and Baker & Taylor *cough, cough* aren't any more accommodating either asking small publishers to play the large publishers game as if they can. Ah, but that's okay they're just doing their job, right?
Sooooo, don't look for my books in chain bookstores and don't look for them on best-sellers list because as you should know all the official best-sellers list are determined by how many books chain bookstores (and actually Indy bookstores too) buy from the large publishers. It isn't based on how many sell to customers. That's why you rarely see small press authors on these lists. Chain bookstores don't order these books in mass. They ignore small pub authors.
But yes, let's get us a tour going, shall we. Let me know and we'll see what happens.
Love y'all!
Oops! Almost forget. "Christian" bookstores are out of the question too because though both of my books have been approved by Spring Arbor for distribution to the Christian market, 99.9% of all Christian bookstores are actually "Christian" or rather CBA member bookstores and they don't allow any book in unless it's published by a fee-paying member publisher. That's so they can be assured the content is censored so that it only appeals to their core market readers. There are few Christian bookstores that aren't member bookstores. But that's because all general market bookstores carry and have carried Christian books forever and there was no need. It's actually still that way. So no, I can't get into a Mardel's or a Lifeway or any other member bookstore despite many of my readers looking for my books there and in spite of going through the trouble of having them approved. Sorry. I tried. It ain't happening. Ironically, I had the edition of Never Ceese that I published through S D Enterprises "unapproved" after I learned it actually served no real purpose to be "approved" and it's still showing up for sell on some sites that can't sell books unless they are approved which basically means Ingram/Spring Arbor doesn't operate the way they state they do which is no real surprise. Never Ceese should not show up as available to any Christian bookstore. I had it pulled months ago.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Attention non-chain Bookstores!
Chain would be Barnes & Nobles, Borders, etc . . . everyone else is non-chain. I'm about to place an order for on hand stock of my Black Bed Sheet Books paperback edition of Never Ceese. That means if you'd like to humor me and have me for a signing, which I will of course promote myself since that isn't your job, then give me a shout.
You'll be out nothing. I bring the books, you make your commission and I make mine. You can of course buy some to keep on your shelves if you'd like, I really don't care. Sixty-forty works for me. Send me an e-mail. ;D
Sorry, but "Christian" chain bookstores are out too. Nobody can get into those store without paying the Christian Booksellers Association a grand fee. I'd say that you Independent Christian Bookstores could humor me but books have to be approved by CBA's Spring Arbor (see Spring Arbor really isn't Ingram at all. It's still run by CBA and always has been)for YOU to even order them and well, while mine once were, I've pulled them from Spring Arbor. I'm no hypocrite. ;D And if you see any "Christian" chain bookstores with Never Ceese on the shelf, PLEEEEEASE contact me straight away so I can do whatever it takes to have them removed.
C. S. Lewis was dead so he couldn't stop his work from going into stores that discriminate based on specific and targeted belief systems. I'm not!!!! I'll not sit idly by if my books start showing up in bookstores who shut their doors in my face.
So yeah, call me. :D
And for the record, any chain bookstore CAN order my books and put them on the shelf but they ONLY automatically order books from the larger publishers whether they suck or not because they're never out any money when these books don't sell. They NEVER order books from small pubbed or POD publishers because most have to make their books non-returnable to survive. Chain bookstores were only ever set up for the larger publishers. I don't belong there. I don't want to be there. So don't look for me there.
You'll be out nothing. I bring the books, you make your commission and I make mine. You can of course buy some to keep on your shelves if you'd like, I really don't care. Sixty-forty works for me. Send me an e-mail. ;D
Sorry, but "Christian" chain bookstores are out too. Nobody can get into those store without paying the Christian Booksellers Association a grand fee. I'd say that you Independent Christian Bookstores could humor me but books have to be approved by CBA's Spring Arbor (see Spring Arbor really isn't Ingram at all. It's still run by CBA and always has been)for YOU to even order them and well, while mine once were, I've pulled them from Spring Arbor. I'm no hypocrite. ;D And if you see any "Christian" chain bookstores with Never Ceese on the shelf, PLEEEEEASE contact me straight away so I can do whatever it takes to have them removed.
C. S. Lewis was dead so he couldn't stop his work from going into stores that discriminate based on specific and targeted belief systems. I'm not!!!! I'll not sit idly by if my books start showing up in bookstores who shut their doors in my face.
So yeah, call me. :D
And for the record, any chain bookstore CAN order my books and put them on the shelf but they ONLY automatically order books from the larger publishers whether they suck or not because they're never out any money when these books don't sell. They NEVER order books from small pubbed or POD publishers because most have to make their books non-returnable to survive. Chain bookstores were only ever set up for the larger publishers. I don't belong there. I don't want to be there. So don't look for me there.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Borders and Never Ceese the E-book!!!!
Oh my GORSH!!! So until Never Ceese and Forever Richard find legitimate distribution again, something other than limited POD distribution (and non-returnable at that since no POD distributor will give me my "hurt" book back and I've no guarantee they destroy it as they say and don't turn around and sell it instead) these two books will never see the inside of a bookstore, even though you can special order them. HOWEVER, I was at Borders tonight, forced to go there with my daughter otherwise I'd not be there at all, and searched, because I like to torment myself, for Never Ceese on their system.
Well, my goodness, my e-book of Never Ceese through LSI is actually available and downloadable from Border's site!!!!!! How cool is that? Huh, huh! Any way you can get it buddy. And marketed just as I asked them to market. *Sue sticks tongue out at Amazon.* So run over there and get it. ;) At least if you want an e-book of Never Ceese. Otherwise you can order the paperback all day long from anywhere in the world and even from my site at www.neverceese.com and www.suedent.blogspot.com. Oh wait, this is www.suedent.blogpot.com so HA!
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