One of the suggestions made at the dinner party - was if you are trying to get your self-published book into Barnes & Noble, or your published one for that matter, a trick you may want to try is to take it into Barnes and Noble and buy it there - they'll scan it into the system as a book that was recently bought there but out of stock. The computer will automatically log it as a book to stock.
I think that's pretty much bunk. It's a story I've heard before from folks who were vanity publishing, back before self-publishing took off. And with B&N tightening everything up, it's my understanding they don't talk self-published unless it's a) listed in Ingrams and 2) can be returned.
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Date: 2012-12-10 01:37 am (UTC)I think that's pretty much bunk. It's a story I've heard before from folks who were vanity publishing, back before self-publishing took off. And with B&N tightening everything up, it's my understanding they don't talk self-published unless it's a) listed in Ingrams and 2) can be returned.