Book Sales Through Stores

Reach broader markets with world-wide availability

Choose PageMaster Premium Distribution for book sales in stores. Make your book available in bookstores and other booksellers world-wide. We partner with major distributors to expand your book's availability beyond the physical Edmonton and PageMaster Publishing on-line stores in our basic plan.

Distribution is one part of marketing. If you have a great product that is priced right you need to both let people know it is available and also how they can get it. Premium distribution is about having your book available as it can be ordered by bookstores and will be listed on online sites.

Awareness of the book to your target audience still needs to be developed for successful sales.  Each genre and niche audience requires a different strategy, but basic marketing principles apply.   

POD

With print premium distribution your book is listed in major databases and made available through Lightning Source and Amazon Kindle to increase reach. With this option, your book is available to over 39,000 outlets through print on demand (POD) technology. Books are printed as they are sold to resellers; who order to fulfill orders or for stock on hand. You do not have to worry about inventory or shipping costs. 

E-books 

Worldwide eBook distribution through the major e-book stores: Amazon, iBooks and Kobo is included in our premium package. You may also opt out and manage individual or all platforms depending on your goals and where you want to spend your energy.

Setup and Royalties

Premium distribution does have an initial fee of $250 to cover staff time creating the listings, and an ongoing catalogue fee is passed on. Print only and eBook only distribution are also available for $150. Staff works with you to create effective listings describing the book and audience. 

File conversions, formatting, marketing tools and promotion are available, but not included in the distribution fee. Generally we start the premium distribution project once your initial set of books are approved. For an outline of the publishing process see our post https://pagemaster.ca/book-publishing-process/.

You receive 85% net on all sales after production costs. Reports are created monthly and posted to your account on our portal. Payouts are quarterly with a $100 threshold. 

Our services are non-exclusive and you are free to find niche outlets and channels for your work. Concentrate on creating and leave the sales and shipping to us.