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Book distribution is a major concern for most Authors. Once the manuscript has been produced into a book, the next step is trying to figure out the right method in distributing your book to the rest of the world.
you have two primary concerns at this point:
1. to get the book read by others and
2. to see a return on your investment.
Some Authors are not really looking for a return on their published book; they just want the whole world to read their story. Whether you are looking to profit from book sells, get onto the New York Times best seller's list, or you want to release the contents of the book for free, distribution is still a must. Often times, this task is handled by what are called "Book Distributors".
What is a Book Distributor?
A book distributor makes its income through marketing and merchandising the books their publishers create, and takes an overall percentage of the retail selling price.
Can a Self-publisher or one who prints their own manuscript sign up for the Book Distributor's service?
Distributors rarely work with individuals (self-publishers) because they need a steady volume of new titles regularly published every season to make a profit.
To illustrate, here are two cases of different book distribution plans, each netting its self-publisher a profit of $26,000 at the end of the year:
Case 1. Let's say, as the publisher of your book, you buy 10,000 copies of your book at a unit price of $2.00 each from a book printer. You also set the book's retail price at $20 per copy. You have so far spent $20,000 on printing costs, and if all books sell at retail, you have the potential for $200,000 in total sales.
Now let's suppose you employ a distributor to manage your marketing and distribution. They may charge you 62-65% of the retail price of the book in order for them to pass it through different distribution channels and still make a profit.
The book stores, depending who they are and how many they buy, get a 45%-55% discount on the book, and also have the option to return. If your book sits on their shelves for too long, they will send it back down the distribution channel, and these copies will eventually come back to you.
Let's review that $20 retail price:
The printer was paid up front $2.00 per unit.
The book store takes an average of $10.00 per unit.
The distributor takes an average of $2.00 per unit.
This leaves you, the publisher, with a net of $6.00 of the $20 retail price.
However, this $6.00 does not yet include the author's royalty, if the publisher was not himself the author. If we allow the author's royalty to be 10% of the wholesale price, this will be cutting another piece of the pie at $0.80 per copy (retail price $20 - discounts $12 = $8 wholesale price. 10% of $8 Wholesale = $0.80).
Thus, the publisher's actual net ($6.00 - author's royalty $0.80) = $5.20 per book.
If 10,000 books are sold into distribution, that means $52,000 goes to you, the publisher. Now you must deduct the original publishing services and costs of producing the book (editing, designing, illustrations, etc.). The cost of publishing services can easily be around $25,000, or even more, but let's say that 50% ($26,000) of your $52,000 went to production costs. This leaves $26,000.
In Case 1 using a major distributor, from a possible $200,000 in retail sales, the self-publisher nets $26,000, or 13% of total retail value.
>>>Griot Publishing's Books will be available at the Griot Publishing Bookstore,
>>>AmazonBooks will be made available at Amazon.com
>>>Books will be made available for order by bookstores and libraries.
Book In Print: A database of all books published
you have two primary concerns at this point:
1. to get the book read by others and
2. to see a return on your investment.
Some Authors are not really looking for a return on their published book; they just want the whole world to read their story. Whether you are looking to profit from book sells, get onto the New York Times best seller's list, or you want to release the contents of the book for free, distribution is still a must. Often times, this task is handled by what are called "Book Distributors".
What is a Book Distributor?
A book distributor makes its income through marketing and merchandising the books their publishers create, and takes an overall percentage of the retail selling price.
Can a Self-publisher or one who prints their own manuscript sign up for the Book Distributor's service?
Distributors rarely work with individuals (self-publishers) because they need a steady volume of new titles regularly published every season to make a profit.
To illustrate, here are two cases of different book distribution plans, each netting its self-publisher a profit of $26,000 at the end of the year:
Case 1. Let's say, as the publisher of your book, you buy 10,000 copies of your book at a unit price of $2.00 each from a book printer. You also set the book's retail price at $20 per copy. You have so far spent $20,000 on printing costs, and if all books sell at retail, you have the potential for $200,000 in total sales.
Now let's suppose you employ a distributor to manage your marketing and distribution. They may charge you 62-65% of the retail price of the book in order for them to pass it through different distribution channels and still make a profit.
The book stores, depending who they are and how many they buy, get a 45%-55% discount on the book, and also have the option to return. If your book sits on their shelves for too long, they will send it back down the distribution channel, and these copies will eventually come back to you.
Let's review that $20 retail price:
The printer was paid up front $2.00 per unit.
The book store takes an average of $10.00 per unit.
The distributor takes an average of $2.00 per unit.
This leaves you, the publisher, with a net of $6.00 of the $20 retail price.
However, this $6.00 does not yet include the author's royalty, if the publisher was not himself the author. If we allow the author's royalty to be 10% of the wholesale price, this will be cutting another piece of the pie at $0.80 per copy (retail price $20 - discounts $12 = $8 wholesale price. 10% of $8 Wholesale = $0.80).
Thus, the publisher's actual net ($6.00 - author's royalty $0.80) = $5.20 per book.
If 10,000 books are sold into distribution, that means $52,000 goes to you, the publisher. Now you must deduct the original publishing services and costs of producing the book (editing, designing, illustrations, etc.). The cost of publishing services can easily be around $25,000, or even more, but let's say that 50% ($26,000) of your $52,000 went to production costs. This leaves $26,000.
In Case 1 using a major distributor, from a possible $200,000 in retail sales, the self-publisher nets $26,000, or 13% of total retail value.
>>>Griot Publishing's Books will be available at the Griot Publishing Bookstore,
>>>AmazonBooks will be made available at Amazon.com
>>>Books will be made available for order by bookstores and libraries.
Book In Print: A database of all books published
