I work in the book industry and we as bookshops hate dealing with ingram spark.

@globalselfpublishing

Жыл бұрын

That’s really interesting! I appreciate your comment. Regards, Romney

@AimeeKisaboyun

Жыл бұрын

This platform gives me the creeps.

@AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor

Жыл бұрын

Why is that? And what is the other option for independent publishers?

@aminfay1309

Жыл бұрын

Would you mind share your experiences here to let us know what was the problem, Thanks. @@AimeeKisaboyun

@darceelee8441

10 ай бұрын

Getting ready to publish and would love to know why. Do you have another you'd prefer to work with?

I have now changed them to books to no returns and very pleased you mentioned this was a better option.

@globalselfpublishing

Жыл бұрын

A better option if you don’t want the hassle of risking returns but could limit your opportunity for large bulk orders. That’s the downside.

@Anonymuser0

10 ай бұрын

@@globalselfpublishing I wish you could allow returns for let's say, up to 50 books at a time, rather than all or nothing.

@C2676GDH

7 ай бұрын

How many days after the book is enabled for distribution will it show on Amazon? Thanks

Hardly any other industry destroys items like book sellars so they don't care about over ordering. I think this hurts the publishing industry. Ie that is why clothes ect. go on sale. I hated tearing book covers off to mail back to the publisher ect. when I worked in a bookstore seemed like such a waste.

@globalselfpublishing

Ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

It is interesting how this happened. To me, it looks like a wholesaler's error. As a normal distributor usually you would buy a few copies and see if they sell. If they sell, you will order more and more and more and more by raising the bar bit by bit. Ordering 300 and returning 299 sounds like a stupid way to go from the distributor's perspective or they for some reason wanted you to cope with this loss. Also, to my knowledge selecting returns to "No" potentially can hurt your sales significantly due to the reasons that in this case, the distributor takes all the risk. Also, another potential theory :) - IngramSpark could be a shady company, strike a deal with that wholesaler. Wholesaler pretends to return, while IngramSpark pretends to destroy the books and they share the profits while you are dealing with the losses, but this is just my elaborations :)

@globalselfpublishing

2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure what went wrong in the process but I also don't think that Ingram are shady. They books could have been damaged in the post and returned and I've needed to cover this cost but I really don't know?

You answered my question. What is the difference between return-yes destroy and no on the return.

@globalselfpublishing

6 ай бұрын

Glad I could assist.

Thank you for the video and for flagging this issue. I've watched some tutorials which talk about bookstores refusing to buy books if the author does not accept returns. Yet you mentioned that you have no problem making sales. So now I'm a bit confused. I was under the impression that accepting returns is a requirement if I want to sell my books. Would you be able to talk more about this, perhaps in future videos? I'm just starting out, and cannot imagine having to pay for 300 books plus shipping to Europe where I live...

@globalselfpublishing

23 сағат бұрын

Hi Anna, I'll make another video on this. You're right, you can limit your chances of your book being brought by bookstores but you need to weigh up the Pro's and Con's. Too many to go into here so video will be best. I choose 'No' to returns so nearly all my sales would be coming from online stores around the globe and not brick & mortar stores.

Thank u thank u thank u

@globalselfpublishing

Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Have you heard stories of authors that did not have enough royalties to cover returns and invoiced instead?

@globalselfpublishing

11 ай бұрын

Yes stories, but no hard evidence or have personally been on the recieving end myself. I'm sure it occurs though!

why my books are not getting enabled for distribution i appealed in Category integrity appeal but they give no specific reason and simply says violation of policy. i have my own content good cover and valid isbn bought from bowker. am us based in june 2023 they used to take my books but after that something changed. kindly help. i price my book 30 usd for 200 pages black and white 6x9 size paperback. no opensource content. copyrighted and build as per ingrams file creation guidlines.

@globalselfpublishing

10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately I’m unable to assist as I have no control over the decision of Ingram to approve or not approve books via any potential policy violations. I’m really sorry you’ve had that experience.

Hi Romney, do you have any success with low content on Ingram spark?

@globalselfpublishing

Жыл бұрын

Yes, however my Low Content books are a mixture of Childrens Books and prompted journals etc as I gram do not permit certain kinds of low content books and definitely not No Content books.

I marked "no" but I got "Return Charge" why? Thanks

@globalselfpublishing

Жыл бұрын

Did you ask Customer Service of IngramSpark? If not, always approach the 'source' first.

This might be a dumb question, but do you have to pay for returns out of pocket, or is it deducted from your earnings? Because if it is deducted from earnings, then it doesn't matter to me since I'm not publishing for the money. I'm just trying to get my books into as many hands as possible.

@globalselfpublishing

8 ай бұрын

It does come out of your royalty earnings but if you get a Bulk Return like I have mid-year of over $700 USD in one go you need to ensure your royalty payments will cover this cost otherwise it will come out of your own pocket.

@alexgibson7960

8 ай бұрын

@globalselfpublishing Thank you. It looks like non returnable it is.

Can we put the same title in KDP and ingramspark and use the same ISBN? and is ingramspark also give the marketing or we have to do the marketing ourselves? i know with KDP we have to market it ourselves.

@globalselfpublishing

Жыл бұрын

You can use the same ISBN in both as long as you have purchased the ISBN yourself. Ingram distribute your book to thousands of online locations so hard to market specifically so I just allow organic sales to occur.

@shienipierce1

Жыл бұрын

@@globalselfpublishing Thanks a lot for the fast reply.

Hi sir will IngramSpark charge you even if you don't have any sales yet?

@globalselfpublishing

Жыл бұрын

No

Hi Romney, Does Ingramspark ask you to refund the money?

@globalselfpublishing

Жыл бұрын

They take it from royalties that are generated from your other book sales….😖

Hello! Allowing no returns doesnt instead get you bad reviews from possible unhappy customers?

@globalselfpublishing

Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't think so and I've not experienced that before.

@AnnaMaledonPictureBookAuthor

Жыл бұрын

You don't deal directly with customers. If IngramSpark messed up in any way with the print or shipping then the bookstore will have to deal with them, not with you, they get part of your profits, so they act on your behalf. The same kdp would act on your behalf. With kdp you don't even get customers' details, you don't know who bought your book, so kdp/amazon deals with all the customer service problems. That's my understanding of things. I've been selling through kdp for 2 years, but I just set up my first book with IS and am waiting for a proof copy to arrive. I think the returns relate to the unsold copies from brick-and-mortar stores, and those copies could be perfectly fine, just unsold, and maybe they are seasonal books like Christmas books or Easter books, so bookshops don't want to store them for a year. I disagree with authors paying for a bookstore's fault of ordering far too many copies.