Why sell direct?
Booksellers expect a discount when placing orders. The minimum discount is around 35% for wholesalers and Amazon 60%. You will have to pay for the freight/postage. This will not leave you with much to pay all the other costs, never mind make a profit!
Selling direct, on the other hand, means you do not have to give a discount, and you can charge the purchaser for packing and postage.
Sell direct, online, with www.ypd-books.com – open 24 hours a day!
YPD-books.com specialises in selling books directly from independent authors and small publishers. You can display your book in our online bookshop, where it can be ordered online. We will take care of the paperwork and all the hassles of distribution. If you have a website, you can link directly to your listing on the bookshop to make use of the YPD-books shopping cart and fulfilment service.
Benefits of selling direct online with YPD-books.com:
The online bookshop allows your customers to purchase your books directly from YPS, at any time, day or night.
- YPS would fulfil these orders within 24 hours
- You can charge for postage
- You can easily link to our online bookshop from your own website
- YPS will hold stocks of your book for immediate despatch from our warehouse
- You will avoid having to pay the 35%-60% booksellers' discounts
Amazon Marketplace
As you have an ISBN you are automatically listed on Amazon. However this does not mean Amazon will hold stocks of your book. Initially they are likely to indicate an order lead time of 4 to 6 weeks! When they receive an order, they will order copies from you, expecting their 60% discount. The long delivery time usually deters sales, and if you have to give 60% discount it is unlikely you will make a profit on Amazon sales.
The YPS Amazon Marketplace account provides a cost effective alternative. YPS have an Amazon Marketplace account and will be listed as an alternative supplier, with a delivery time of 2 days. If customers choose to order from YPS, Amazon will forward the order to us. They will take 17.5% commission, but this is better than 60%!.
How York Publishing Services can work for you
Our system is easy and straightforward. YPS would hold stock of your book in our warehouse in York; we would receive orders by mail, fax or phone, then speedily process and supply them. At the end of each month we would send you the revenue from sales.
What will it cost?
For the full distribution service and for a listing on YPD-books.com:
- Fixed charge: £30 per month for the first title and £10 per month for additional titles.
- Commission: 10% of sales.
- Postage: postage would be charged at cost on trade orders. Postage on orders placed on YPD-books.com would be paid by the customers.
- Packing: no charge
- Storage: £6 per pallet per month. We can consolidate stock of several titles on a single pallet to minimise the storage cost. If we only store a few boxes, storage would be free.