Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sander's campaign bought his own books to inflate sales. [View all]torius
(1,652 posts)Anyway, the bookstores and publishers work together. The price I could get my books at for the publisher was the same price as I could pay Barnes and Noble for a box of books. You don't get royalties or any kind of profit from that unless you resell them. A lot of books get returned from bookstores to publishers. (That's why if you have a book in the store, you should sign it so they can't return it!) But you won't get a royalty unless someone walks in and buys it. Do bookstore purchases go into total sales, but I'm not sure, but no bookstore would order a lot of books unless you, the author, is buying them. Stores don't act as book storage. They don't have room. The normal quantity is two books and those get returned if they don't sell. If a book is selling well then they restock. I believe library purchases do count into sales. Authors can ask libraries to buy books.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided