At what number Amazon.com sales ranking would my print on demand book have to reach for a traditional publisher to seriously consider wanting to obtain rights to my book and transition it over to their imprint?
At what number Amazon.com sales ranking would my print on demand book have to reach for a traditional publisher to seriously consider wanting to obtain rights to my book and transition it over to their imprint?
They wouldn’t.
POD books have had a long-held reputation of being poorly written and poorly edited.
Traditional publishers won’t touch anything that doesn’t bring in a boatload of money and has a strong following.
Amazon.com may have a rank-and-file system which allows authors the chance to have their books posted and seen to the world in general–but the truth is…
You have to have a damned good book and a name that people recognize as being a major money-bringer and someone they can have blind faith in to bringing out a really good book.
Most POD authors don’t understand this. They think that just because they are published by a third party outlet, it means that traditional publishers will suddenly "look them up" and take them in.
Unfortunately, it’s never the case–because it’s so damned rare for a POD author to be picked up out of the blue these days.
The ongoing recession has a lot of publishers stream-lining their operations and cutting back on a number of fronts–including signing up agented authors for a nice six-figure contract. (Or seven–for that matter. It’s been a few years since the publishers had gone and done such a thing.)
So your job as a POD author is a hell of a lot harder than it usually is.