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Book Marketing 105: Choosing a Book Distribution System
This vital mini-guide includes criteria for deciding how you will distribute your books. Also includes complete information on 30 distributors, 3 sales reps to the chains, 4 library distributors, 89 book publishers who also distribute for other publishers, 27 bookstore wholesalers, 34 library wholesalers, and 23 Spanish-language wholesalers. Plus a sample book distribution contract. Ebook download, $30.00.
Top 700 Indie Bookstores
This database features 740 stores with address, book buyer, owner, event coordinator, phone, fax, email, website, and more! Cost: $40.00. This data file features an updated list of the largest indie bookstores that work with authors and buy books from indie publishers. The report comes as a data file download (your choice of Microsoft Access, Excel, or rich text format). The data files do require that you know how to use a database or word-processing program.
These book reviewers and magazine editors have been updated as noted at the end of any listing (10/11). If the contact is vital to you, verify the book reviewer's or editor's name and address before making submissions. Please send us any corrections or additions. Email JohnKremer@bookmarket.com.
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Architectural Digest, Condé Nast, 6300 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90048. Monthly home design, landscaping, and architecture magazine (10/10).
Back Home Magazine, P O Box 70, Hendersonville NC 28793;
828-696-3838. Email: info@backhomemagazine.com. Web: http://www.backhomemagazine.com. Bimonthly magazine design to provide useful do-it-yourself information on sustainable, self-reliant living. Topics include cooking, gardening, home building, energy, home business, home schooling, workshop projects, home maintenance, and more. They also have an online and in-magazine BackHome Books bookstore featuring books on construction, home energy, food, gardening, greenhouses, homesteading, home business, livestock, and reference (1/11).
Better Homes and Gardens - http://magagenie.com/better-homes-and-garden
Canadian House & Home, 511 King Street W #120, Toronto, Ontario M5V 2Z4 Canada; 905-946-1021. Web: http://www.houseandhome.com. Monthly magazines about homes and design (5/10).
Container Gardens, Ron Rensuli, Editor, 1115 Broadway, New York NY 10010; 212-807-7100; Fax: 212-463-9958. Annual magazine.
Country Living - http://magagenie.com/country-living-magazine
Dwell, 550 Kearny Street #710, San Francisco CA 94108; 415-373-5100; Fax: 415-520-4001. Email: letters@dwell.com. Web: http://www.dwell.com. 10 issues per year. Motto: At home in the modern world. All about home, architecture, and design (2/11).
Elle Decor - http://magagenie.com/elle-decor-magazine
Fine Gardening, The Taunton Press, 63 S Main Street, P O Box 5506, Newtown CT 06470-5506; 203-426-8171; Fax: 203-270-6753. Email: fg@taunton.com. Web: http://www.finegardening.com. A bimonthly magazine about gardening (12/08).
Garden Design, Bonnier Corp., 460 N Orlando Avenue #200, Winter Park FL 32789; 407-628-4802; Fax: 407-628-7061. Also New York: 2 Park Avenue, New York NY 10016. Email: editor@gardendesign.com. Web: http://www.gardendesign.com. Monthly gardening magazine. In each issue of the magazine, they feature 30 garden retailers (3/10).
Garden Gate, August Home Publishing, 2200 Grand Avenue, Des Moines IA 50312; 800-341-4769. Web: http://www.gardengatemagazine.com. Bimonthly gardening magazine. They feature booklets in their Did You Know? department.
Gardening How-To, 12301 Whitewater Drive, Minnetonka MN 55343; 800-688-7611. Web: http://www.gardeningclub.com. Bimonthly magazine on gardening (7/10).
Good Housekeeping - http://magagenie.com/good-housekeeping-magazine
Grit, Ogden Publications, 1503 SW 42nd Street, Topeka KS 66609. Web: http://www.grit.com. Monthly magazine featuring gardening, landscaping, recipes, do-it-yourself projects, and more for country living.
House Beautiful, Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, 24th Floor, New York NY 10019. Web: http://www.housebeautiful.com. Monthly home magazine (7/10).
Interior Design, 360 Park Avenue South, 17th Floor, New York NY 10010; 646-805-0200. Web: http://www.interiordesign.net. Monthly magazine about home design (11/10).
Martha Stewart Living - http://magagenie.com/martha-stewart-living
Mother Earth News, Ogden Publications, 1503 SW 42nd Street, Topeka KS 66609; 785-274-4300. Email: letters@motherearthnews.com. Email: askourexperts@motherearthnews.com. Web: http://www.motherearthnews.com. Monthly magazine for homesteaders, gardeners, country life, etc. They feature an in-magazine catalog of books, CDs, and DVDs on homesteading, country wisdom, gardening, alternative energy, cookbooks, and green building (12/10).
Mountain Living, 1777 S Harrison Street #903, Denver CO 80210; 303-248-2060; Fax: 303-248-2064. Web: http://www.mountainliving.com. Bimonthly magazine on homes and home design (1/11).
Natural Home, 1503 SW 42nd Street, Topeka KS 66609-1265; 785-274-4304; Fax: 785-274-4303. Web: http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com. Motto: Living wisely, living well. Bimonthly magazine on natural solutions for cleaning, decorating, and designing your home (2/11).
Organic Gardening - http://magagenie.com/organic-gardening-magazine
Phoenix Home & Garden - http://magagenie.com/phoenix-home-garden-magazine
ReadyMade - http://magagenie.com/readymade-magazine
Real Simple - Details here: http://magagenie.com/real-simple-magazine
SuCasa, Charles Poling, Editor, Hacienda Press, 4100 Wolcott Avenue NE #B, Albuquerque NM 87109; 505-344-1783; Fax: 505-345-3795. Email: cpoling@sucasamagazine.com. Web: http://www.sucasamagazine.com. This quarterly magazine features Southwestern homes, design, environmental homes, remodeler's corner, etc. Reviewed Adobe Homes for All Climates by Lisa Schroder and Vince Ogletree, The Hybrid House by Catherine Wanek, and The University of New Mexico by V. B. Price (10/10).
This Old House, 135 West 50th Street, New York NY 10020. Web: http://www.thisoldhouse.com. Monthly home renovation magazine that only seems to review or feature books published by their editors (12/10).
Town & Country, Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, 33rd Floor, New York NY 10019-3794; 212-903-5279; Fax: 646-280-1054. Email: tnc@hearst.com. Web: http://www.townandcountrymag.com. Monthly lifestyle magazine.
Traditional Home - http://magagenie.com/traditional-home-magazine
Trend, Keiko Ohnuma, Editor, P O Box 1951, Santa Fe NM 87504-1941; 505-988-5007. Motto: Art + Design + Architecture. Twice-yearly magazine on art, home design, and architecture (6/10).
Victoria, Hoffman Media, 1900 International Park Drive #50, Birmingham AL 35243; 205-995-8860. Email: victoriamagazine@hoffmanmedia.com. Web: http://www.victoriamag.com. Bimonthly home design magazine (11/10).
CardMaker, Editor, 306 East Parr Road, Berne IN 46711; 260-589-4000. Fax: 260-589-8093. Publisher: P O Box 8000, Big Sandy TX 75755; 800-282-6643. Email: editor@cardmakermagazine.com. Web: http://www.cardmakermagazine.com Bimonthly greeting card and scrapbooking crafts magazine (3/11).
Create & Decorate, All American Crafts, 7 Waterloo Road, Stanhope NJ 07874; 973-347-6900; Fax: 973-347-6909. Email: editors@createanddecorate.com. Web: http://www.createanddecorate.com. 7 times a year craft magazine (6/10).
HomeArts Magazine, Creative Home Arts Club, 12301 Whitewater Drive, Minnetonka MN 55343. Email: editors@creativehomeartsclub.com. Web: http://www.creativehomeartsclub.com. Bimonthly crafts magazine for club members (5/10).
Interweave Knits, Interweave Press, 201 E Fourth Street, Loveland CO 80537-5655; 970-669-7672. Email: knits@interweave.com. Web: http://www.interweaveknits.com. Quarterly knitting magazine (6/10).
Knitter's Magazine, 1320 S Minnesota Avenue, Sioux Falls SD 57105; 605-338-2450. Web: http://www.knittinguniverse.com. Quarterly magazine on knitting (10/10).
Quilting Arts Magazine, 23 Gleasondale Road, P O Box 685, Stow MA 01775. Email: submissions@quiltingarts.com. Web: http://www.quiltingarts.com. Submissions info: http://www.quiltingdaily.com/content/submissionsQA.aspx. Bimonthly quilting magazine (2/11).
Woodworker's Journal, 4365 Willow Drive, Medina MN 55340. Email: letters@woodworkersjournal.com and editor@woodworkersjournal.com. Web: http://www.woodworkersjournal.com. Writer's guidelines: http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/Uploads/Media/WJguidelines.pdf. America's leading woodworking authority. Bimonthly magazine (2/11).
Please note that most magazines like to review new books. So they need to see books (galley copies or advanced review copies) 12 to 24 weeks before the publication date of the book. For more about publication dates, see http://www.bookmarket.com/pubdate.htm.
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