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I started with KDP and the Kindle version has at least been downloaded quite a lot, especially when it was free!
I have yet to attempt a book store as the costs preclude ordering in stock.


My book is on Amazon Kindle, the iBookstore, Sony, Barnes &Noble, Kobo, Baker & Taylor, Copia, Gardner's and eBookpie. It is Bookbaby who looks after the distribution.
Johanna van Zanten
Johanna van Zanten

Can you have your book available on Smashwords if you didnt use them to publish it and you went with CS?
What is Kobo?
Ive heard by many self pub authors that B&N doesnt take a liking to self pub and indie authors so how have you all gotten them to feature your book?
Very interesting responses

If you publish a paperback through CreateSpace, and pay the $25 for extended distribution, they'll send it to barnesandnoble.com, which will list it. (I think the same is true with Lightning Source and/or Lulu, but haven't used either.) Getting it in B&N bookstores is another story, though one can sometimes sweet-talk the manager into carrying it, particularly if one has some connection to the particular store.


I can't say I'm sure if or how I am featured in either of the big two e-stores; I'd guess that I am not! However, the first volume of my trilogy is free, so that does provide some publicity simply through people searching free books.

and on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com and several other internet sites in
hardback, paperback, and ebook forms.


As paperback it is distributed by CreatSpace to other paperback retailers as well.



Good initiative, Greer. I'm going to look for you and support you there, although if your book is on Amazon.com first, then the reviews do appear on the other sites as a beta functionality.

Okay that makes sense. I say on average an authors book should be available in at least three places, Your publisher(self-pub included), Amazon and a third party source.
Amazon is a must given they are owners of 25% of all things via internet lol. Having your book available in multiple places is good although I believe someone earlier in this thread said you don't want it available at too many places cause then the price will drop on the main ones and you and your company lose money.
I know my first book is on tons of places and on Amazon it's listed at just around $4.00, dropping from a whopping $18 back two years ago.