Our fulfillment services known as Books Etc. is located at our plant in Seattle, Washington. Here we help make your book available to customers through credit card purchases. We have an 800# order line, an Internet presence, and we provide periodic co-op mailings to bookstores and libraries. We will attempt to place every book that participates in this program with national distributors (Spring Arbor/Ingram Distributors, Amazon.com, and BarnesandNoble.com. We will automatically do this for each participating client unless otherwise requested.

As you are contracted with Books Etc. to be your fulfillment management company, Books Etc. will require a one-year commitment. This will allow time for you to get the word out about the book. There are no setup fees and you receive free warehouse space (for up to 300 books) for that first year. After one year there is a *modest monthly fee to keep your books in the warehouse and active in this order fulfillment system.

(*Please see the "Costs" page for the breakdown of these modest monthly fees)

An 800# (1-800-917-BOOK) is provided to take orders for your book. Books Etc. takes and processes Visa and MasterCard sales.

If possible, the 800# should be placed on the inside of your book to encourage further orders. And it is the number you should give out whenever you are doing any type of media interview.

All orders are shipped within 48 hours.

Through an arrangement with Spring Arbor/Ingram Distributors your book will be a part of the inventory and database of the largest wholesale distributor in the U .S. This means that your book will be available through special order to any bookstore in the country.

Your book will be available on the Internet through an arrangement with Amazon.com, and BarnesandNoble.com.

There will be an annual catalog of Selah Publishing titles that will be made available to top stores. As other marketing opportunities arise, members of this program will be alerted. An example of this would be a co-op advertising flyer distributed to bookstores across the country. The cost of this flyer would be shared by all participants (see following).

Retail Sale Service Fee -
Books Etc. charges a 30% service fee or $3.00 per order, which ever is greater, for each net retail purchase. Retail sales are defined as purchases by individuals whether discounted or not. This service fee covers the cost for the service charges to credit card companies, and invoicing and processing payments. A net sale is defined as the dollar amount of the sale reflected on the invoice, less all taxes and assessments payable with respect to the freight, shipping, and postage expenses. Shipping charges added to retail invoices are paid by the customer and are retained by Books Etc.

*Bookstore example -
A $10 retail book sold at 42% discount to a bookstore yields a net sale of $23.20 for 4 total books. We charge you $4.64 (which represents the 20% charge) out of which we pay the marketing consultant, the phone operators, and the personnel to operate the fulfillment warehouse. Your total revenue for this type of sale would be $18.56 or $4.64 per book. In the event that the net sale is less than $15.00, the fee would then be $3.00 per transaction.

*Wholesaler/Distributor example -
A $10 retail book sold at 55% discount to a wholesaler/distributor yields a net sale of $18.00 for 4 total books. We charge you $3.60 (which represents the 20% charge) out of which we pay the marketing consultant, the phone operators, and the personnel to operate the fulfillment warehouse. Your total revenue for this type of sale would be $14.40 or $3.60 per book. In the event that the net sale is less than $15.00, the fee would then be $3.00 per transaction.

Co-op Marketing Fliers -
These are full-color fliers printed with several different books displayed. These books are shown and described with full-color cover art for each book, a book description, and ordering information. Each participating author co-ops in the printing costs. These fliers are then used at trade shows, book conferences, and mailed with book orders from the Books Etc. warehouse.

*Due to the discounts that must be given to bookstores and distributors we recommend that you carefully consider the ramifications of participating in our fulfillment services unless you have a large enough profit margin built into your retail price. Your total revenue could potentially be less than what you paid to have the book packaged and printed.

Books Etc. does not buy your books. Books Etc. does not act as an advertising or publicity agency. This arm of Selah Publishing is strictly a service organization. Books Etc. operates on a consignment basis only, and there are no promises or guarantees of the sale of your book. It is your responsibility to prepay shipping to the Books Etc. warehouse in Seattle.

It is your responsibility to pay the shipping to any book distributor who carries your product.

If the marketing department needs free copies to give to key buyers, these will be taken from your warehouse stock and the freight will billed to you. We suggest that you plan on providing our marketing department with fifteen copies to start.

Books Etc. is not able to warehouse your entire print run. We do need enough quantity appropriate for a few months sales. Books Etc. is willing to start with four or five cases of your books with no extra warehousing costs as long as the total number of books does not exceed 300 copies.