Power Your Book Sales With Returnable Books
Encourage booksellers to stock your book by allowing them to return unsold copies. Your book will be classified as returnable in the Gardners Title Database. When you purchase the program, bookstores can order your title with the ability to return it. This program makes your book more attractive to booksellers and retailers. Download program details.
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Benefits of Booksellers Return Program
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Return Program Details
Your book will be returnable in the UK subject to the book being ordered by a UK bookseller from either Gardners Wholesale, or from AuthorHouse UK on a pro forma basis.
A UK bookseller may purchase your book from, or return your book to Gardners Wholesale or AuthorHouse subject to the bookseller’s individual trading arrangements with Gardners Wholesale or AuthorHouse.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the Bookseller's Return Program do for me?
The Bookseller’s Return Program makes it much more likely that a bookstore will be willing to stock your book. If a book does not sell well, bookstores want the ability to return unsold books to publishers for a complete refund. Because traditional publishers always take returns, AuthorHouse has developed the Bookseller's Return Program so that bookstores are able to return unsold books to AuthorHouse. The best part is, AuthorHouse authors receive their retail royalty for every book sold in the Booksellers Return Program, whether the book is returned or not. When a book is returnable, the bookstore has no risk of losing money on unsold inventory and will be far more likely to stock the book.
Can I buy more than a year of Returnability?
A one-year renewal agreement is available for purchase at the same time or just prior to the expiration of this agreement. Authors who purchase a one-year agreement will be notified 60 to 90 days before the expiration date. How do the bookstores know where to return the books? The return process is the same as it is with traditional publishers: booksellers return books to the wholesaler from whom they made the purchase. When a book becomes returnable, a notation is made in Gardners automated Title Information Database that your book is returnable.
What is Gardners?
Gardners Wholesale is the UK's largest wholesale distributor of books.
Why do some retailers have accurate information about my book but others do not?
Not all bookstore chains, regions, or individual shops are online with real-time data. Many bookstores must periodically download new books and new book information from the Gardners database into their databases. If a bookstore is not using real-time, and their download is not kept current, a book may appear to a bookstore as non-returnable, even when it is.
Can AuthorHouse make a store stock my book?
No. Bookstore chains and independent bookstores are private businesses and AuthorHouse has no control over their business operations, which includes their decisions regarding which books to order, stock, or feature.
