Books4Spain - Special Offers

Books4Spain is a great site for all types of books and ebooks about Spain both fiction and non fiction - currently lots of special offers.

This from their site.-

'Books4Spain is an online bookshop specialising in English language books about Spain or books set in Spain.
Books4Spain has been established, by Rod Younger, an Anglo-Spaniard, in response to the explosive growth in online mass market “soulless” book retailers, such as Amazon, and the continuing decline of the traditional independent bookshop with knowledgeable staff and an interesting collection of books.
The site has been designed to re-create the experience, attractions and benefits of a traditional bricks & mortar independent bookshop but with the added convenience afforded by the Internet and technology to offer better choice, an easier way to discover books about Spain and to enable our clients to discover Spain and its rich history and culture through books.'

Also see their blog - lots of author interviews and other interesting articles about Spain.

Rob Innis, TWC member, has published an ebook - Spain Exposed, which will shortly be available on B4S in standard EPUB format for those who have a non Kindle ereader.

Is Amazon Kindle publishing the answer?

The traditional world of book publishing is in a state of turmoil as the impact of reading books electronically (eBooks/eReaders) continues to grab a larger slice of the market.

Writers, fed up with being rejected or ignored by literary agents and publishers have turned to self publishing and are either producing traditional books or taking the ‘e’ route and publishing eBooks.

Independent booksellers are under siege from the big chains, which also need to rethink their sales strategies whilst the online sellers, notably Amazon, continue to increase sales and expand their operations in Europe.

The current financial climate has meant, for many, new books are now a luxury and overall sales are dropping – taken from a recent report on Spanish Book sales:

“In the past five years, turnover has decreased by 11.2% and the number of

copies sold has reduced by 20.3% ”

Several members of TWC have taken the self publishing route.

Whilst others are in the ‘pipeline’. Of course the easy bit is the writing (!) the tricky bit is the marketing to generate sales in a very competitive market place.

I am pleased with my own modest efforts and sales are steadyon the Amazon Kindle platform so I would recommend all budding authors to research this option if agents are not waving lucrative contracts under their noses.

Rob Innis