Making the Book More Available Internationally
June 20th, 2007 by janetA couple of great bits of information have come my way recently which will help you to get your copy of ‘Beyond the Red Door’ closer to home.
I had an email from someone in the UK who had searched everywhere for my book. His father-in-law had been on a cruise around the Scottish Isles where he’d spied my book on the boat and started reading it. But he never finished it before leaving the boat, and asked his son-in-law if he could find the elusive book!
Luckily, the son-in-law found my website and bought a copy. We exchanged emails and I soon discovered that the major bookseller in the UK, Waterstones, has my book listed as ‘unavailable’. So the mission began. With this guy’s help, I finally discovered who in the UK could change this status on bookseller’s websites. I’ve now sent an email to Nielsen’s BookData, and hope that very soon, UK residents can order through an online bookstore like Waterstones. I’m assuming that they would order the book in for you, which would reduce the postage costs. Let’s wait and see.
The second fantastic thing that I learned is that I can list my book on amazon.com. Yes, it is there already,and some of you have bought it that way, but have you looked at amazon.com lately? There are three copies left, two new and one used. The new copies are hugely inflated in price. I can only guess it’s because they believe there are no more copies anywhere in the world.
So I’m rectifying this by placing my reprinted copy on their site. Again, this should bring prices down for people overseas, as postage costs will be lower. I’ll keep an eye on this one as well.
It’s great when you stumble on these things. Oh, and the gentleman in the UK who wanted my book actually phoned me to thank me for sending it over! Now that was a real buzz.
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