Booksellers Return Programme

 £599.00

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Encourage booksellers to stock your book by allowing them to return unsold titles. Your book will be classified as returnable by Gardners Wholesale or AuthorHouse UK Ltd. 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.

Benefits of Booksellers Return Programme

  • Encourages bookstores to order your book
  • Improves chances of scheduling book signings and appearances, especially with hometown bookstores
  • Allows book returns yet will not reduce author royalties
  • Participating authors have the opportunity to purchase returned books at a discount

Return Programme Details

  • All soft cover and hard cover Works published by AuthorHouse UK Ltd are eligible to participate in the Programme.
  • Your Work will be returnable in the UK subject to The Work being ordered by a UK bookseller from Gardners Wholesale.
  • A UK bookseller may purchase your Work from, or return your Work to Gardners Wholesale or AuthorHouse UK Ltd.
  • One-year contract, which allows for up to 12 months of book returnability

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the Bookseller's Return Programme do for me?

The Bookseller’s Return Programme 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 Programme so that bookstores are able to return unsold books to AuthorHouse for a refund. The best part is, AuthorHouse authors receive their retail royalty for every book sold in the Booksellers Return Programme, 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 Title Information Database that your book is returnable.

What is Gardners?

Gardners Book Group is the UK's largest wholesale distributor of books. AuthorHouse uses Gardners Wholesale for the distribution of all AuthorHouse UK titles.

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 Gardners Wholesale, a book will appear to a bookstore as non-returnable.

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.

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