Published at retailers

[Morganist]

As far as I can tell it is saying that Waterstones is out of stock and that it is offering a sale from a third party seller, which is selling at a higher price than sold for originally by five pounds. I guess it is like amazon when they sell books by other people too.

I think maybe Waterstones sold out because they have to order then to then sell them. Even print on demand books have to ordered and held by these distributors. Maybe I am wrong but remember they are not lulu who can print more. They have to order them from lulu then send them. Maybe they have a stock they bought and stored for sale that has run out. I can't think of any other reason why they would put that.

What do you think?

[kevinlomas]

Retailers usually order them from Lulu, that's what the ISBNs are for.
Are they stocked in the highstreet shops though?

[Morganist]

I don't know. I only found out they are on the internet today. I will find out.

Can I ask is this a good start?

[kevinlomas]

What? that after a few days everyone stocks your books? What do you think? I thought you was an economist :-)

[Morganist]

I don't know I have never done this before. I thought it was general practice. Is that not the case then?

[kevinlomas]

What? your book get stocked by lots of shops and reviewed on line and you did nothing to cause that? Very unusual, especially for a book not even very well formatted. Or did you pay Lulu to market it?

http://www.lulu.com/shop/services/marketing/cUK_LULU_SERVICES-cUK_LULU_SERVICES_MARKETING-p1.html

[Morganist]

I formatted it myself and had a cover made. It looks good. So in terms of quality it is as good as other books. But no I did nothing to promote it.

I think they must have seen it on amazon in the new books for the last 90 days.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/peter-james-Economics-Books/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Peter%20James&rh=n%3A268153%2...

It is at the top.

What do you think is this normal for this to happen?

[kevinlomas]

So not listed for a couple of days, but 90? It is also not as well laid out as professional books are, which is interesting if people are still buying it regardless.

[Morganist]

No it was only listed the last couple of days. The 90 days is inclusive of last two or three. How do you know how well it is laid out?

[kevinlomas]

I looked http://www.lulu.com/shop/peter-james-rhys-morgan/euro-crisis-aggregate-demand-control-is-european-si...