Queensland author and science communicator Toby Hendy has posted a very interesting video about promoting her first book. She discusses the tsunami of AI generated slop books on Amazon, the difficulties of discovery on bookselling platforms, the low returns for authors in traditional bookstores, and how she went about producing her own book, finding an audience, using Shopify, finding a reliable warehousing solution and negotiating the intricacies of international shipping and duties. All very practical and interesting, and a genuine alternative to the Amazon POD route… Some links to her online bookstore and an article on the uses of crowdfunding for authors:
A Guide to Making Friends in the Fourth Dimension - Paperback Paperback
Learn more about Shopify by visiting: https://shopify.com/tibees
My bookstore: https://tibees.com/
Kevin Kelly's article: https://kk.org/thetechnium/everything... When publishing this way (printing in bulk) it's important to do pre-orders or crowdfunding to know how many books to print. Kevin's article talks about his crowdfunding methods. In case you're wondering, it is possible to do print-on-demand and sell directly. Ingram Spark offers selling direct as a service only to US and UK authors.