Specialty Booksellers
I am researching resources for the Authors’ SpeakEasy Workshop in November on how and where self-published authors can distribute their books.
Our friend John Kremer www.bookmarket.com contributes several booksellers/retailers resources for you and shares how to approach the Airport Shops.
Airport Shops: Hudson Booksellers
Hudson Booksellers, Sara Hinckley, Vice President of Book Purchasing, 1521 Johnson Ferry Road #250, Marietta GA 20062; 770-998-5032 or 678-560-5960. Email: shinckley@hudsongroup.com. Web: http://www.hudsongroupusa.com. Lisa Strollo, Vice President, Merchandising; Email: lstrollo@hudsongroup.com. Hudson operates more than 400 Hudson Newsstands and 66 Hudson Booksellers in airports around the country.
If you want to have your books featured in these airport bookstores, email a sell-sheet with cover image, title details, and publicity plans, and other available sales information to booksellers@hudsongroup.com.
Or, you can also mail a sell-sheet and/or finished copy of your product with title details, publicity plans, any available sales information, and contact information to Hudson Booksellers, 1521 Johnson Ferry Road #250, Marietta GA 20062.
“You will receive a response within four weeks of receipt of the product. Please note that Hudson Booksellers locations are very small. Our selection is focused primarily on current and past bestsellers and classics. Our key categories are fiction, business, and narrative nonfiction. We do carry titles from almost every major category. We do not carry any self-published books, or books published by vanity publishers. We only carry oversized books if they are current bestsellers or local souvenir-type bestsellers.”
If you published your own book, don’t present it that way. Present it as coming from your publishing company. For example, my 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, while self-published, is not a self-published book. It is published by Open Horizons.
On the other hand, if your book is published by a POD publisher, you might have a tougher time selling them on stocking your book. Some major booksellers treat POD as worse than self-published. While some POD books merit that designation, many are as good or better than other self-publisher books — or even books from larger publishers.
Specialty Shops
- Andy Warhol Museum Store, Web: http://www.warholstore.com. Art museum bookstore.
- The Big Idea Infoshop, Email: books@thebigideapgh.org, Web:
http://www.thebigideapgh.org . Left-wing and alternative political bookshop. Hosts several book discussion groups.
- Carnegie Museum of Art Store, Web: http://www.carnegieartstore.com
Features art books, gifts, jewelry, posters, notecards, children’s books, apparel, and videos. Museum: http://www.cmoa.org
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Museum Shop
Web: http://www.naturalhistorystore.com
The shop features toys, art, books, and gifts related to animals, dinosaurs, wildlife, botany, geology, fossils, American Indians, ancient Egypt, and other nature topics. Museum web: http://www.carnegiemnh.org
- Carnegie Science Center, XPLOR Store
Web: http://www.sciencecenterstore.com
Museum web: http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org
- Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Museum Store
Email: store@pittsburghkids.org
Web: http://www.pittsburghkids.org
- Journeys of Life, Jean Haller
Email: info@journeysoflifeonline.com
Web: http://www.journeysoflifeonline.com
Founded in 1990, this store specializes in psychology, self-help, new age, spirituality, men’s and women’s issues, recovery, and related topics. Also music, gifts, crystals, 12-step items, aromatherapy, and jewelry.
- The Open Mind Bookstore, Phil Harris, Book Buyer
Email: om@theopenmind.com, Web: http://www.theopenmind.com, Email Phil: phil@theopenmind.com. Mind/body/spirit bookstore.
- Senator John Heinz History Center
Email: estore@hswp.org
Web: http://store.pghhistory.org
History, political, and regional books.
