Hello Nairalanders,

Please can you suggest a better, less costlier way of selling a book in Nigeria? I will appreciate your response a great deal. Thanks

what kind of book are you talking about here. Better profit can be made depending on the marketing technique.
To me selling a book is not really a problem but selling a script is my prsent problem.

The best way to sell a book is through internet.build a blog and have it design nicely and put all the books you want to sell on it. Indicate the type of payment you accept and make the price cheaper.

Pray to God on a mountain for seven dayz against pirates, ,, lol

Marketing is the key.

Just make sure the title is about HYIPs. It will sell like hot akara and Agege bread!!!!

HYIPs??

what is that?

You don't know? Where have you been? HYIPs are the money doublers/magicians/fraudsters that our people seem to have embraced abandoning any thinking ability in order to believe that someone can turn 2500 to 250000 in 9 weeks. I mean pennywise, casheseed, sefteg, wealth solution etc.

To sell a book,identify your target audience and take the book to them one-on-one.It may be herculean initially but you would have built a customer base such that subsequent publications can be procured at designated locations.kunle Abrahams.

Get a broom, a mat and a bell.
then proceed to Ojuelegba under bridge,
find a good spot
sweep it clean,
lay your mat over it
arrange your books neatly and attractively
and the holla at the top of your lungs while ringing your bell
100, 100, 100( or whatever the amount you choose to sell), bendownlow and pick.
surely your books will sell

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In Nigeria definitely not bookshops. Bookshops are just a good central place to direct people to, after you have made your own marketing efforts.

It's got to be direct marketing in whatever form. Define your target market and seek them out. Put the book in their face and if it is well packaged and has good content thethey will buy. For example if your market is in the schools then you have to find a way to run around and get the books to them.

Even soft sell magazine that sell like hot cake (in spite of the low Nigerian reading habit); sells because it is hawked on the streets and shoved in the face of car occupiers.

Selling books in Nigeria is hard work

sounds unbelievable, sounds funny, but the more successful books sellers are in Ajegunle, Ojuelegba etc and that is their strategy

babadee:

Get a broom, a mat and a bell.
then proceed to Ojuelegba under bridge,
find a good spot
sweep it clean,
lay your mat over it
arrange your books neatly and attractively
and the holla at the top of your lungs while ringing your bell
100, 100, 100( or whatever the amount you choose to sell), bendownlow and pick.
surely your books will sell

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A friend of mine uses Lulu.

http://www.lulu.com/

From the website:

Lulu is fast, easy and free.
Publish and sell easily within minutes.
No set-up fees. No minimum order.
Keep control of the rights.
Set your own price.
Each product is printed as it is ordered.
No excess inventory.

Hi, my name is A.A Ahubelem i am the Author of "JOIN DON'T" a bold fast selling book in Nigerian. While Selling your book in Nigerian you would encounter a major problem which is distribution but here is how i handled mine.

1st of all i created a Facebook Page where i posted my book preview and invited my friends and urged them to invite others.

2nd I created a simple website http://www.jollyrogueseries.com/ you can create a blog if you can't create a website.http://jollyrougeseries..com/

Next when i got loads of comments on Facebook and people began to demand for the book, I began to deliver the book to them personally and charge for deliver. When i got request outside lagos, i gave them a discount and added the posting fee. I use ABC they charge 1100 for delivery.

When i had sold enough and broken even i began to visit bookshops and request that they showcase my book on their shelf. I issues them an invoice to collect payment after. After which i listed all the bookshops on my website.

When my fans on Facebook get bored i encourage them by posting an excerpt of my book (http://www.facebook.com/388942974500182/posts/432686380100262) to keep them engaged.

So far my book has sold 350 copies cash for the initial price of 2000 Naira and about 100 copies @ 1000 naira(i dropped the price after i broke even) I have about 200 unevenly distributed at bookshops at a 40 percent discount i.e for 600 naira.

What next i put the book on Amazon (Don't Join
by Azubike a. Ahubelem
Link: http://amzn.com/1496986970)so i can target the international market.

Selling E-book is very hard so you might need to invest in Google adds and Facebook adds and buy targeted emails if you don't have a mailing list from your initial profit but trust me . Once your eBooks start selling you would keep smiling. I've current sold about 43 eBooks for the price of 4$ each and i am hoping to sell more.

Hope this was able to help. .

Try Bookateria. You sell your E-book and get 70% royalty. They handle payment, delivery and others.
You can track your earnings via a dashboard and see your sales grow. A link to your book which you can share anywhere and get more sales.

And most important, piracy wont be a problem cos you can opt in for DRM protection.

Visit www.bookateria.net for more.

usdbox:
The best way to sell a book is through internet.build a blog and have it design nicely and put all the books you want to sell on it. Indicate the type of payment you accept and make the price cheaper.

That's my same problem man. I need help

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