HI! Dominique Gibson is back with another post. So, I recently been exploring social media the other day and found something interesting that is intended for self-published authors who are interested in getting their books into bookstores so that they will be able to find readers who wouldn’t otherwise find you anywhere else. It’s called Bumble Books.
Bumble Books states on their website that it’s more than just a bookstore and wants to bridge the gap between independent authors and independent books ‘one novel at a time’. For self-published authors, there was this huge stigma going around between indie authors getting their books into bookstores because of the statement of being ‘low-quality’ if it’s not being published by a big five publishing house. If you are ‘traditionally published’, then you have the chance for people to pick up your books in bookstores in addition to reading it online. With indie publishing, most of these books are only available online.
Hence, Bumble Books
They are a company that wants to take a big step by opening a bookstore that supports purchasing books in the actual bookstores instead of just going through the Amazon and other online channels to purchase indie books by indie authors. Being an indie author myself, I am hoping that this idea will become successful so that other people who love indie books will pick up on this trend and follow suit so that readers will have the option of reading books by Indie authors who may have gotten lost in the cracks via online channels such as Amazon, Ingramspark, and others.
If you want to learn more about this company, you can access here. For indie authors, I think this will be worth exploring, especially if you want more publicity for your work.
That’s it for now. See you soon.
Dominique Gibson
