How to sell your zines (Part 2 of 2). How to self-publish a photo book or zine.
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- How to sell your zines (Part 2 of 2). How to self-publish a photo book or zine.
In Part 1 I covered: Printing choices and costs, Sizing your Zine, Pricing your Zine and Selling via your own website.
In Part 2 I cover:
Selling via shops
A tip for how to sell more of your zines in shops
A stockist in the UK who takes photo zines
Contacting stockists via email
Distributors
A call to action to share info on photo book shops and stockists that sell photo zines
You will also see some zines by:
Nik Hartley
Marc Valee
Phil Forby
Dimitri Dryer
(I didn't catch the name of the large zine of self portraits, if you know let me know in the comments)
I hope you enjoyed that, this is a new show and it'd be great if you SUBSCRIBED to the channel!
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There are more details on these zines on my website. edwardthompson.co.uk
#selfpublishing #photobook #photobookjousting #howtomakeaphotobook #howtomakeazine
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Reaching out to local book shops
01:15 The Photographers Gallery book shop
02:44 What is 'consignment'?
03:12 Zine selling tip
04:44 International Shipping
06:48 Zines I received from viewers!
08:19 Zine distributors?
09:49 Writing an email to submit my zines
12:02 Call to action! Leave zine shops/distributors in the comments please
Village Books are Manchester and Leeds based, and have a great selection of zines and photobooks in both shops. Definitely worth investigating as options.
Top tip! Thanks James
Awesome! I have been waiting for this! I hope there is a part 3.
We need more business info on zines and book marketing and sales!
Thanks so much for the zine series!
I need help too! Hoping we can pool our knowledge of shops/outlets for zines
Another really practical and helpful video Ed, thanks! I work for a national chain of bookshops (let’s face it, there’s only one national chain of bookshops these days, so you can work out which one 😉) and as much as we like to support local writers & artists, stocking zines is tricky for us as unlike books they don’t have ISBNs. Just thought I’d mention that before people lug a box of their work into their local branch in the hope of getting stocked.
It’s such a shame, but sadly those economies of scale you mentioned in the first video work both ways. Sorry!
Also, great tip about shrink-wrapping stock - I keep our art & photography books like this for exactly that reason. If we get multiple sealed copies we’ll only open one of them.
Good tip Simon! And isbns cost ££££! You get a discount for buying 10 but only silly people like me do that who have stupid grand plans! 😉
Great stuff as always Ed. I took along some copies of my zine to a summer open exhibition where I also had some framed prints, and like you I packed them in cellophane to protect them. But I was concerned that people wouldn't buy what they couldn't look at so decided to write off an extra copy to stay un-wrapped and made a label I stuck on the front of it marked DISPLAY COPY. The gallery placed that copy on a table for people to browse. It seemed to work ok, cost me less that £2 and helped me sell a few. Might be worth a go?
Thanks Terry!
Agitate shop in Edinburgh is amazing, worth checking out as a place to sell zines!
Ah amazing! Thank you. I'll look them up pronto
I find the best way is to build up a grass roots following so that you can sell your work without having to give it to third parties to sell. I sell up to 200 copies of my small photobooks and zines direct to people from my website. In the past i have given to certain shops (name withheld) and when I have gone in, i have been unable to even see it in there, either deliberately or not. Bypassing the establishment means you can get more money to plough back into into publishing new work. It obviously helps if yoy are making work that stands out from others due to its content and subject matter.
Yes, for sure. Most photographers I know (myself included) sell primaryily through their website. But I love the idea of a lucky find, that someone who doesn't know my work stumbles across it in a bookshop. I think that's why its fun to get your books out physically somewhere. Who knows where that could lead you?
@@PicturesOnMyMind I agree, I print a limited edition of each of my projects as I too am a strong believer in getting my work into a viewer's hands to be appreciated. I give them away to contacts I make (not interested in monetising my creativity).
Some i send overseas from here in New Zealand. Here, if your zine will fit into an A4 envelope and weighs less than 200gms it can travel by post to anywhere in the world for $6.90NZ. We have no galleries/shops in my city interested in them so I put the remainder in coffee shops for random distribution free.
One of the bookshops in Oxford was selling Zines a few years ago - no idea if they still do, but I'll take a look next time I'm in the city.
That'd be great! Let me know which one here and we can all get them! Ha!
Sweet
Hey Ed, have you tried the Photobook Cafe near old street? They also host zine making workshops.
I donated them a copy of in-a-gadda-da-england. I didn't realise they sold books too. Thanks Nigel.