Post by account_disabled on Jan 6, 2024 16:27:53 GMT 8
What I have always asked myself is: if I have just created a publishing house, which works do I publish? How do I find authors willing to publish with a newly created publishing company, without any books in the catalog yet? Who has the courage to be a guinea pig? Initially I advertised Plesio through libraries, forums, bookstores and every place where I could find some authors. This was a year before officially opening the business and with numerical results (in terms of works received) that were not encouraging. I'm talking about less than a hundred works in a year of research (currently around a hundred arrive in a month). The ideal would be to be able to contact all those debut authors who are available and looking for a new publisher (facebook helps a lot in this). If you create empathy for the project, that's it.
Is it necessary to have an office and a warehouse? Even if you start with a few publications, still ten books for a print run of 500 copies each makes 5000 books, which takes up quite a bit of space. There are therefore two alternatives: either a small office and a warehouse or a fairly large office. And therefore other Special Data expenses. What can you tell us about it? The office is not essential, in the sense that it should be quite simple to create an "office corner" inside a common home. The warehouse is more complicated. A well-organised warehouse needs space, books should not get damp, boxes should not rest directly on the ground, titles should be easily reachable and arranged in an orderly manner. Even the most cautious publisher, who aims to maintain a minimum warehouse... sooner or later will inevitably encounter a space problem. How to choose the distributor? The distribution of books in bookstores determines the success of a publishing house: if the books don't reach the shelves, readers won't be able to buy them.
I often go to large bookstores and I must say that I always find the same (large) publishers: there is absolutely no trace of the small ones. Is it that difficult to find a reliable distributor? Not only is it difficult to find a reliable distributor, but the distributors themselves are often not available to carry your catalog. Many of the big distribution companies impose a minimum of titles per year and, often, also indicate the genre to which they belong (for example, a well-known national distributor in recent years has requested a culinary series). The problem is more complex than you think. And it doesn't even mean that finding a large distributor is a good thing, because it implies numbers that are almost impossible for small publishing companies to sustain. Mobilizing large quantities of books costs in terms of logistics and printing effort, and it has also happened that the unsold volume of an operation larger than one's capacity has led to the bankruptcy of a small or even medium-sized company.
Is it necessary to have an office and a warehouse? Even if you start with a few publications, still ten books for a print run of 500 copies each makes 5000 books, which takes up quite a bit of space. There are therefore two alternatives: either a small office and a warehouse or a fairly large office. And therefore other Special Data expenses. What can you tell us about it? The office is not essential, in the sense that it should be quite simple to create an "office corner" inside a common home. The warehouse is more complicated. A well-organised warehouse needs space, books should not get damp, boxes should not rest directly on the ground, titles should be easily reachable and arranged in an orderly manner. Even the most cautious publisher, who aims to maintain a minimum warehouse... sooner or later will inevitably encounter a space problem. How to choose the distributor? The distribution of books in bookstores determines the success of a publishing house: if the books don't reach the shelves, readers won't be able to buy them.
I often go to large bookstores and I must say that I always find the same (large) publishers: there is absolutely no trace of the small ones. Is it that difficult to find a reliable distributor? Not only is it difficult to find a reliable distributor, but the distributors themselves are often not available to carry your catalog. Many of the big distribution companies impose a minimum of titles per year and, often, also indicate the genre to which they belong (for example, a well-known national distributor in recent years has requested a culinary series). The problem is more complex than you think. And it doesn't even mean that finding a large distributor is a good thing, because it implies numbers that are almost impossible for small publishing companies to sustain. Mobilizing large quantities of books costs in terms of logistics and printing effort, and it has also happened that the unsold volume of an operation larger than one's capacity has led to the bankruptcy of a small or even medium-sized company.