Book Selling University courses are available for free to view as frequently as you want. Read a description of any of the 50+ courses with a bio of the instructor at www.booksellinguniversity.com. Then click "Take Course" to view it at no charge. Or, go to  http://www.youtube.com/ and search for Book Selling University. Watch any course to learn more about the advantages and possibilities of non-bookstore (special sales) marketing and many other aspects of book marketing in general.

Are you wondering what you can do during these times so your book sales take off when this is over? Here is a brief list of actions you could take now for impact in 30 or more days: define and segment your target readers (and think of others), if your content is anything to do with homebound-family activities contact the media, upgrade your website, continue social networking, develop a marketing plan for what you can do when this is over, calculate a revised budget, create a blog, contact book clubs and catalogs (with 6-month lead times), contact celebrities for endorsements, create a book trailer, contact magazines with 90-day lead-times, prepare sales-promotional items (pens, pads, coffee mugs, etc.), send books to reviewers, apply to award competitions, contribute to online discussion forums, find potential buyers in non-bookstore markets (retail and non-retail), develop affiliate-marketing relationships, establish links to/from your website, plan a mobile marketing campaign, contact magazines about serial rights or providing excerpts. Do these stimulate more ideas?

Display-marketing companies (http://www.collectivegoods.com, formerly Books Are Fun) buy large, non-returnable quantities of books and gifts directly from publishers at discounts up to 80%. Then they sell the directly to consumers through displays at the buyers‘ locations (schools, corporations, daycare centers).

Total Printing Systems is open during normal business hours, operating with precautions and ready to meet your printing needs without disruption. During this difficult time please continue to read books, write books, and give books while we continue to make books. Wishing you good health. Register for Instant Quote: www.tps1.com or reach out to a rep www.tps1.com/meet-the-crew/

Are you still shipping books? APSS can help. Our partner,  PartnerShip, has a Blog they will keep updating as things progress, or regress. Shipping is such an essential sector of the economy and it can’t afford to be put on hold at any time. Here's the Blog link: 
https://www.partnership.com/blog/post/coronavirus-update   
Hopefully all of the measures the leaders of the country are taking will slow this thing down, but it will take everyone’s efforts to reverse it that’s for sure.

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