{"id":43193,"date":"2025-11-02T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/?p=43193"},"modified":"2025-11-02T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T14:50:24","slug":"3-ways-your-local-library-can-help-you-sell-more-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/small-business-marketing\/3-ways-your-local-library-can-help-you-sell-more-books\/","title":{"rendered":"3 ways your local library can help you sell more books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authors who need help <strong>selling their books<\/strong> should start looking close to home, at the one place where books are free:<strong> their local library.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I speak at writers &nbsp;conferences, I hear authors complaining that they don&#8217;t want to be bothered with selling to a library &#8220;where hundreds of people might read my book for free.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Are you kidding me?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Libraries are marketing machines. They do <strong>all the heavy lifting<\/strong> and help you gain exposure, generate publicity and pull crowds. Using their many resources is just one of the ideas I&#8217;ll share tomorrow during the webinar on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/shop\/book-publicity-ideas-you-can-use-today-to-sell-more-books-tomorrow\">Book Publicity Ideas You Can Use Today to Sell More Books Tomorrow.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are 3 ways libraries can help you sell more books. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. They&#8217;ll host a book signing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Libraries aren&#8217;t beneath New York Times best-selling author Lesley Kagen. She did a book signing at the Grafton Public Library near my town last week. She and I live in the same county so it was close to home for her. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. They&#8217;ll let local newspapers know about your event.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I saw a photo of Lesley Kagen&#8217;s book signing in my local newspaper, The Ozaukee Press, last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Libraries will often tell the local Chamber of Commerce about your event.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s what the Grafton chamber put on its homepage to promote Lesley Kagen&#8217;s book signing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors who need help selling their books should start looking close to home, at the one place where books are free: their local library. When I speak at writers &nbsp;conferences, I hear authors complaining that they don&#8217;t want to be bothered with selling to a library &#8220;where hundreds of people might read my book for\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/small-business-marketing\/3-ways-your-local-library-can-help-you-sell-more-books\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_wds_title":"","_wds_metadesc":"","_wds_focus-keywords":"","_wds_meta-robots-adv":"","_wds_meta-robots-noindex":false,"_wds_meta-robots-nofollow":false,"_wds_meta-robots-index":false,"_wds_meta-robots-follow":false,"_wds_autolinks-exclude":false,"_wds_canonical":"","_wds_redirect":"","_wds_opengraph":[],"_wds_twitter":[],"iawp_total_views":11,"wds_primary_category":665,"footnotes":""},"categories":[665],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-43193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-small-business-marketing","tag-authors","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43194,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43193\/revisions\/43194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}