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INGRAM MARKETING

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Ingram Marketing is an alternative to the physical bookstore placement integrated
with some other online marketing features specially designed to help authors gain
more buyers. The health, safety and convenience, most especially during this time
of pandemic is paramount when this marketing platform was designed. It
provides maximum book exposure with limited physical contact and hence, book
availability is maintained despite absence of physical book display.
This platform goes beyond its usefulness during pandemic, it has become the
newer, cheaper and viable way for authors to attract more buyers. This platform,
when maximized, is capable of generating substantial sales and return of
investment for the author. It allows to author to have more management and
control not only when it comes to book exposure, but also to its prices and
marketability aspects.

THE FEATURES OF THIS PLATFORM

Ingram Marketing carries the following features:


A. UNLIMITED BOOKSTORE PLACEMENT
One of the breakthroughs introduced by this platform is the automatic storage of
your book’s metadata into the integrated library and bookstore systems worldwide.
With the advent of new technologies, gone are the days where bookstores have to
wait for book concessionaires to submit books for display. What they do now is by
their own initiative, they will search for titles online.
Since the book is stored into an account database which is linked into the
integrated library and bookstore systems worldwide, you as an author need not to
worry about having physical copies of your book getting pulled out of
bookshelves. Bookstore owners as well as buyers will just have to look over the
system data in order to see the title they are looking for. This saves you a great
deal of money because instead of paying for bookstore placement on a
renewable basis, this type of marketing does a lifetime storage of your book data
so the copy of your book remains on the bookstore system for an UNLIMITED
PERIOD of time.

B. AUTOMATIC INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC BOOK


INSURANCE
The major thing that is holding bookstores from purchasing bulk volumes of one
particular title is the fear and apprehension that they will not get their money back
for unsold copies of the books. With Ingram Marketing, bookstores are insured that
they will get their money back for the value of the unsold copies of the book on
one hand, and on the other, you as the author is insured that you keep whatever
amount you get from book purchases regardless of whether all purchased copies
are sold or not. This is made possible by the book insurance which applies whether
the book is purchased domestically or internationally.
Unlike the conventional Book Returnability Program that will only cover certain
bookstores and will only last for a certain period of time, book insurance covers all
and every book buyer, whether corporate or individual and the coverage is lifetime.
Meaning, at any point of any specific print run by bookstores, they can always have
that peace of mind knowing that whatever unsold books in that batch is eligible for
a money back.

C. CLEAR AND FEASIBLE MARKET


Ingram Marketing is a hybrid marketing that targets specific market where buyers
are available. This is made possible because of the fact that when the need arises,
there is a ready availability of the copy of the book in the system. The tedious
effort of browsing all the titles in Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and the like is done
away. In other words, the book is filtered from the rest of those similar in genre
and/or plot.
Also, considering that this platform is a breakthrough, few authors have availed of
this as of the moment so when you strike while the iron is hot, you will have an
advantage.

D. AUTHOR HAS CONTROL OF THE PRICING AND 100% REVENUE

Ever wonder why your book sells much more expensive in than what you
intended? The answer is simple. They too, wants to earn from your book. But it
does not stop there. They want to earn much more than you do. Put your
publisher’s share in the equation and you are left with a meager penny. ISN’T IT
UNFAIR FOR THEM TO GET A PORTION FROM WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO
BE YOURS WHEN ALL THEY DID WAS NOTHING? This platform is the
answer for that dilemma.
With Ingram Marketing, you have the control of how much you can sell your book
all over the world. You can adjust it based on inflation rates and your book price is
readily converted into the currency equivalent of the country where the book is
sold.

E. AUTHOR IS SAVED FROM THE INCONVENIENCE OF PAYING


FOR REPUBLISHING A NEW EDITION OR PUBLISHING A NEW
TITLE
Publishing and republishing add up to what is already a plethora of dilemmas for
authors. As an author you have to face the fact that you have to spend money over
and over and over again in order for you to get money – a bitter pill to swallow for
sure.
With Ingram Marketing, you do not have to spend anymore just to republish a new
edition or publishing a new title. Your account comes with FREE ISBN, and is
CAPABLE OF STORING AS MANY TITLES AS YOU CAN EVER IMAGINE.
You can simply upload the file and assign a free ISBN to it and it will go live and
will be distributed worldwide in an instant, ready for purchase.

F. LEGACY MARKETING
The necessity of having a copyright claimant is inevitable at some point during the
life of a published book. This is very true in your case where you wanted to tell the
whole world about your husband and put them on notice as to how great and
wonderful he was during his lifetime. In cases where there are no claimants, money
from book sales are automatically escheated in favor of the government, in case of
the author’s death.
In order to keep the life and value of your work and keep it from becoming a
public domain susceptible of unbridled exploits, you and/or your heirs have to
renew the copyright for each title. This fact alone requires you to do the hassle of
delivering copies to the
US Copyright Office and not to mention, paying the individual cost for the
copyright of each title.
With Ingram Marketing, all these inconveniences are eliminated. Your account, as
a computer software and database, is copyrighted as a computer software
classification under the US Copyright Law. That being said, all items integrated
and/or stored into it that are attributable to you, is copyrighted as a consequence.
If you as an author wishes to transfer the rights of your work to someone in the
event that something happens to you, you do not have to go to the copyright
office. Simply change the account settings and the legacy of your work lives on!

HOW DOES IT GENERATE SALES

We partner with bookstores, through a signed agreement, which states that they
should give PRIORITY CONSIDERATION to titles submitted by us through
Ingram Marketing.
In addition to that, prior to offering this platform to you, we make sure a buyer
demographics has been properly and thoroughly run to make sure substantial sales
will be generated.

THE COST

You will get all the features and benefits of this platform for only $989.00.
Just to illustrate how economical this investment is, we will direct you to the
costing matrix below:

WITHOUT INGRAM WITH INGRAM MAREKTING***


MARKETING**

Bookstore Placement ($600)*


Book Returnability Domestic ALL FEATURES FOR JUST
($600)* $989.00
Book Returnability Int’l ($1200)*

Copyright ($55/ title)*

TOTAL = $2455.00 TOTAL = $989.00


* Prices are based on standard marketing rates
** On limited time basis WITHOUT GUARANTEED SALES
*** Unlimited Period with GUARANTEED SALES

HOW LONG BEFORE REVENUES AND SALES ARE


REALIZED USING THIS PLATFORM

Like any endeavor to attain a certain financial goal, we also need a


specific amount of time. We will work to get you substantial sales, by
that we mean sales greater than, or equal to, what you have invested
for this platform. Give us four (4) months to do that, or else, we can
readily admit that we are not a good marketer and therefore you GET
YOUR MONEY BACK.

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