How to Submit Your Self-Published Book Directly for Sale to the Top Online Retailers

Retailers sell your book directly to the customer. According to industry reports, online book sales account for the majority of books sold in the U.S., and Amazon significantly dominates the market.

To generate revenue from book sales, retail outlets either:

• Receive a discount off the suggested retail price of the book (known as the “wholesale price”) when they purchase the book from a distributor. This is the most common revenue model for brick-and-mortar bookstores. The expected discount is at least 50% (but usually more).

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• Keep a percentage of the money received when a book is sold to a customer. This is the most common revenue model for online retailers.

Some retailers allow authors/publishers to distribute their books directly to the retail outlet without having to go through a distributor or aggregator. Here is how to distribute your book directly to five of the largest online book retailers: Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Google Play and Kobo (includes Walmart).

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