I thought early on in my PAMB experience that it seemed like a big author book club. The participants being the suppliers of the material for their own club.
Make friends.
Buy friends book.
Say something good about each others book.
Returnabilty-
Not yet, and I'd wager that not very many have been made so. It doesn't matter anyway, 5% will not get books stocked in stores.
Hence, Lets make books returnable at a very short discount, knowing that stores won't stock them. The bone we throw will excite the newbies and we can attach another books sales scheme to the letter.
When the returnablity program doesn't work, we'll dump it, before "06."
And we'll say.
As we've said before, and it has proven out, that bookstores don't sell books, authors do. Frommmmmm sea to shining sea.
For you lurkers,
This is what sea to shining sea means. That you yourselves have gotten books stocked in stores around the country, not PublishAmerica.
What you get for free.
You write the book, with your heart and soul included. "Your Baby."
P.A. formats your book.
Pastes a cover up from internet sources.
They let you look it, so they can blame you for the mistakes.
You give them up to one hundred names for P.A. to solicit to buy your book. Most I sent never received their notice, yes I had the right addresses.
P.A. sends your file to LSI.
Puts your book on Amazon, and B&N. com, with fifty million other books that are priced half as much, from authors who are more well known.
Send you two author copies for free along with a chance to purchase more in a short time frame, for the best discount they'll ever give you.
Okay, up to now, you've only lost your baby for 7 years. You won't sell a gang of books, nor will you make a bunch of money.
Bookstores won't stock it, and you'll be forced to buy your own books to try to, "Get your name out there."
If you buy your own books, you have paid to publish. Yes, they have formatted it and made it ready to sell. But, to who?
Not the public, for they aren't able to find it in any store, unless you put it in your local store on consignment.
Notice Local store. You can't travel all over the U.S., Canada, or England consigning your book. Stores won't buy your book, even from you, because it isn't profitable, and they know who P.A. is already.
So, don't buy your own books. Write a new and better book, and send it to publishers and agents who will do all of the sales, marketing and work for you.
As you so often love to call yourselves writers, and published authors, then write, and leave the sales to the Avon lady.
Former scammed writer printed by P.A.
to Bufty.
