Prices and Shipping Costs, and Other Boring Book Stuff
Pardon any typos, I'm still doing the speech to text thing.
We investigated the costs of producing and shipping our print books, and got some bad news: We're actually losing a little money on a couple of the books, and making hardly any on others. I'm all for a fun hobby, but this is also supposed to be a business, and when it comes to style--red is a bad look on a business.
So we have to increase the price of a couple of the books, by a dollar. This, of course, doesn't apply to the traditionally published books, Haunted Noble County, Indiana and Images of America: Albion and Noble County. In those cases the publisher sets the retail price.
On the matter of shipping costs, we took some books to the Post Office and did some figuring. Basically, sending our books to anywhere in America is $4.77 to ship, not including envelopes, which are around 50 cents or so. There's also handling, but we don't get enough mail orders to charge for our time.
It means to mail one book to you is $5.00, which for Haunted Noble County is now set up on our website:
https://markrhunter.com/haunted-noble-count
Hitting the buy button will take you to a PayPal area for payment, and it will give us the address to ship it to. According to the Post Office, ordering two books would increase shipping to $5.22.
You might be money ahead to buy the book direct from Arcadia Publishing, where shipping and handling is a dollar less:
https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/vendors?q=Mark%20R.%20Hunter&contributorID=14550
Last time I checked Amazon S&H was actually more, but a lot less if you have Prime, or a larger order to go with it:
It's also online at Barnes and Noble and--wait for it--copies are available at the Barnes and Noble store at Fort Wayne's Glenbrook mall:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Mark%20R.%20Hunter%22
Has anyone seen Haunted Noble County, Indiana for sale at any other brick and mortar locations?
So you can get a signed copy direct from us through the website, or from Butterfly Alley Gifts here in Albion:
www.facebook.com/p/Butterfly-Alley-Gifts-61551021355135/
You can also get signed copies at one of our upcoming author appearances, which I'll give you information about on my next post. If you show up somewhere with a book you already bought, of course we'll sign it ... but don't count on that increasing the book's value.
I have to stop for now ... my talking muscles are getting tired.
Oh, just one more thing: When I say "we" set up this or set up that, it's actually Emily who did it. Even if I could type right now, my lack of talent on computer design verges on legendary.
As usual, all our books can be found here:
· Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0058CL6OO
· Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/"Mark R Hunter"
· Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4898846.Mark_R_Hunter
· Blog: https://markrhunter.blogspot.com/
· Website: http://www.markrhunter.com/
· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozma914/
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· Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrhunter/
· Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkRHunter
· Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRHunter
· Substack: https://substack.com/@markrhunter
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· Audible: https://www.audible.com/search?searchAuthor=Mark+R.+Hunter&ref_pageloadid=4C1TS2KZGoOjloaJ&pf
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