Book Distribution for Self-Published Authors

With traditional publishing a publisher prints thousands of copies of a book and sells them to stores and distributors. Our on demand printing and book distribution service means that we only print a book when a retailer or wholesaler orders it. This enables you to sell your book in thousands of stores with minimum upfront costs and no warehousing. Just add $399 to any printed book order of 25+ books.

BookBaby has two different book distribution networks. In addition to selling printed books (Print On Demand), eBook distribution allows you to publish and sell your book digitally, through the largest eBook stores online, for eReader devices such as Kindle, iPad, and Nook. There is some crossover between these networks. For many of the biggest bookstores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, readers will be able to purchase either the eBook or the printed version, whichever book format they desire — one of the benefits of making your book available on both networks. If you want to sell both eBooks and printed books, thanks to BookBaby’s combined distribution networks, your book can be available in over 100 stores, worldwide!

Add POD distribution to any bulk printing order of 25 or more books.

• Upload your cover and text PDF files.
• Enter the retail price of your book. This is the price that your title will sell for in the retail stores.
• Complete POD distribution survey. This is where you will provide us with the details of your book including your author bio, title description and metadata.
• BookBaby prepares your files for print and sets up your title in our distribution system.
• In about 3-4 weeks your titles will begin to appear for ordering at online retailers and to our wholesale distribution network.
• Retailers order your title.
• BookBaby prints the books to the demand of the retailer and fulfills the order back to the retailer who turns around and fulfills the order to their buyer.
• Payment is received from the retailers and added to your BookBaby distribution account.

We offer check, PayPal, ACH payment options within the US. We offer PayPal, Payoneer, and physical check for international payments. You can select your preferred payment method in your accounting dashboard.

No, inclusion in our print-on-demand program only guarantees that the title is available to these outlets. It is ultimately up to individual retailers and their own internal criteria whether they will carry a specific title on their site or in their stores.

Depending on the retail price of your title, and the specs of the book, most titles will generate between 10% -30% royalties. Sometimes sales will fall outside of these royalty targets depending on international currency conversion rates, the manufacturing costs associated with production of your titles, and the fluctuation in retailer distribution charges. BookBaby built its distribution network with the goal of maximizing exposure for your titles while maintaining the best royalty rates possible.