Posted by - Authors and illustrators can use pre-orders as a way to signal to publishers/marketing team that there is a strong interest in their upcoming work.
- Authors and illustrators can use pre-orders sales to get larger orders from retailers.
- Pre-orders count towards the first week of sales.
- Many best seller lists use pre-orders as one metric for ranking.
- Pre-order buzz helps authors and illustrators reach a wider audience!
Want More Ideas? Also request your library purchase these new books during the pre-order period/new release period, check out those books to keep them in circulation, and review them when you can!
Sources
1. “All About Pre-Orders” by Penguin Random House: This article briefly covers the points why pre-orders are important from a publishing house standpoint.
2. Why Pre-Orders Matter by Bookends Literary: This article briefly covers the points why pre-orders are important from a agency standpoint.
3. Why Pre-Orders Matter [Video]? by Lee Lefever: This video gives the reasons how and why other creatives could support peer pre-orders.
4. Why don’t I recommend pre-ordering [Video] by Kindleprenuer: This video is written from a KDP (e-book only) view point, but brings up some good counterpoints that might be worth thinking about
5. Five Reasons to Pre-Order [Video]: James Breakwell’s hilarious video about the benefits of pre-ordering.
Thanks for the mini-lesson! I admit I wondered why I saw so any authors on Twitter asking folks to pre-order their books. Now I know. These bite-size kidlit posts are terrific – thanks for posting them!
Yeah, it was new to me, too. #themoreyouknow