Print-On-Demand, A Smart Way To Sell Indian Books Overseas!

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(Free-Press-Release.com) October 23, 2009 -- Print-on-Demand (POD) is the new bookselling concept fast catching up with Indian publishers of all sizes. POD is tailor-made to help sell Indian books in overseas markets. No pre-printed stocking in the US, no international shipping and more so set “24 hours shipping!”

POD in simpler terms means print, bind and ship against firm orders. POD has gone through a great evolution, making it economical. POD books are listed along with print copy books at the same price as normal offset printed books.

A1Books India now offers A1Books-POD services to Indian publishers, in association with Lightning Source (LSI) of the U.S., the world’s largest POD publishers and an Ingram group company that distributes over 25000 publishers titles globally. A1Books India uses its U.S. infrastructure to extend this option to Indian publishers.

Once on A1Books POD list, these Indian books are listed on world’s largest online stores - a1books.com, amazon US, Canada, UK, France and Germany, bn, alibris, abebooks and in over 20 large online marketplaces. These books are also listed in the world’s largest print book wholesalers, distributors and chain stores catalogues of Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Barnes & Noble, Espresso Book Machine of the US and Gardner, Bertrams, Blackwell, Libreria and Ledi of UK, just to name a few. The US and European libraries and Institutional buyers source books from them. Just a snapshot : Once on A1Books POD listing these books are available for shipments in less than 12 hours to over 30,000 wholesalers, retailers and booksellers of Ingram and a host of libraries and book buyers in over 100 countries!

It is not easy to get in there. It all costs huge money. But with A1Books POD program, these are part of the nominal package. It is a one time effort for Indian publishers to list their books on A1Books POD program and for life their books would be in-print and keep getting the sales proceeds automatically as sales happen on these global sales platforms, year after year! Pricing of POD books would be in US$ and is dependent on the size, biding type, B&W or multi-color printing and no. of pages. Initial set up cost is so low it is tempting even big publishers to opt for A1Books POD services.

A1books is already an active and leading player in offering POD services. Speaking from his New Jersey office about A1Books POD services, Shinu Gupta, Founder & CEO of a1Books.com and a1books.co.in said “We would leverage our relationships with the top sales channels in the USA to present the Indian titles to eTail, retail and distribution establishments. A publisher in India could thus have his book presented to Barnes and Noble chain stores as well as Amazon.com the largest online seller in the USA through this program.” A1Books.com is a venture of New Jersey-based Webnotions Inc which is a leading place for online marketing solutions for consumer products in B2C and B2B categories.

To contact A1Books India – write to support@a1books.

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