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Originally Posted by caladanbrood Well, I can inform you that Salisbury is completely sold out of the Darkweaver Legacy. Even the library. And not just none ever ordered... both Ottakers and Waterstones had sold out, and were in the process of getting more.
Good news, except it meant I couldn't buy any of them today  |
You're right, it is good news that they have sold out again.
The sad thing is that it takes a prompt from a customer for them to get the books back into stock.
This is the hardest thing to come to terms with as a self publisher. The bookshops will not monitor sales of your books no matter how many you sell. To give an example, I can tell you that Waterstones in Salisbury have sold over 400 copies of my books in the last 4 years. You would think that this would be a large enough number for them to take notice and make an effort to keep the titles in stock, but it would take an individual there to make it their personal mission to do so. This is because their computer system will not highlight it for them.
I don't blame the stores. There is little they can do about it. Until the books are included in core stock, the titles are not monitored. That is the way of the world. Getting titles included in core stock is probably the biggest challenge any self publisher will ever face. Onwards and upwards and all that.