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After completing this lesson, the student will be able to

Understand the principles and techniques of book marketing

Identify the customer needs

Describe the issues of book promotions

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Introduction

a) Marketing refers to all activities concerned

with the flow of goods and services from theproducer to the consumer.

b) It includes the various physical movements

of the product including the pricing,

wholesaling, transporting, and retailing the

product. Also involves packaging, design

and advertising.

c) Marketing may be said to include everything

that has to do with how the products

including in publishing industry are sold.

The Concept of Marketing

Concept 1:

Selling focuses on the needs of the seller; marketing; on the needs of the buyer.

Selling is preoccupied with the sellers need to convert the product into cash;

marketing, with the idea of satisfying the needs of the customer by means of the

product and the whole cluster of things associated with creating, delivering, and

finally consuming it.

Concept 2:

Social marketing which suggests that nonprofit organizations need to understand that

marketing is not about selling, and not about promotion, but about service and adding

value, and that to be successful non-profit organizations must understand

marketings fundamental principles.

Source : taken from Google image

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Kotler, an authority on marketing, defines market ing as concerned with the effective

management by an organization of its exchange relationship with its various markets and

publics.

Marketing is an attitude, a philosophy which influences the style of management itself. Kotler

goes on to define marketing management further as the analysis, planning,

implementation, and control of programmes designed to bring about desired exchanges for

the purpose of personal or mutual gain. It relies heavily on the adaption and co-ordination of

product, price, promotion and place for achieving an effective response.

Kotlers definition of marketing concept states that the societal marketing concept is

customer-oriented backed by integrated marketing aimed at generating customersatisfaction and long-term consumer welfare as the key to organizational goals.

There is a need for the promotion of books and reading in society, and for those concerned

to adopt a marketing approach that will ultimately reach target markets segmented according

to prevalent characteristics. Two important issues to be borne in mind in developing a

reading society, and in improving book publishing and sales are that:

1) marketing is matching product with customer, and2) products should be in harmony with the other Ps in the marketing mix.

The book (product), their customers accessibility (or lack of it) to where products are sold

(place), the price they will be willing to pay, and how to persuade the potential customers to

purchase books (promotion) are all crucial in successful book marketing. Matching books

with customers calls for a shift from the present-day product and production conceptual

approaches to publishing to the market orientation approach.

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Book marketing

Book marketing means the management, the distribution and all the related activities

of profit-making organizations in market which is related with books.

Marketing and promot ion of e-book s in academic l ibraries

E-books are viewed as having the potential to be even more significant for libraries

and learners than e-journals, because of the longstanding centrality of textbooks to

learning in higher education (Armstrong et al., 2006; Rowlands et al., 2007). Indeed,the digital format offers many opportunities for books to be developed as interactive

learning resources, and in some cases substituting for locally designed learning

resources and experiences. However, at this point in time, many academic libraries

are only in a position to make a limited list of e-books available, and are highly

dependent on publishers decisions concerning the availability of and licensing

arrangements for e-books.

For example, in a recent large-scale study Newman and Bui (2009) found that

amongst 138 librarians from 13 countries, 44% of the participants indicated that their

libraries currently own or subscribe to 10,000 or fewer e-books. However, they

predict a significant growth in their e-book budgets in the next five years. Hence, as

Anson and Connell (2009) suggest libraries need to be better prepared for a future in

which e-books may be as important, or more important, than print books.

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4.1 The principles and techniques marketing

Advance Information Sheet

the promotion assistant prepares the books advance information sheet (AIS)

which contains bibliographic information, synopsis, blurb, contents, main

selling points, market profile, author biography.

It is then mailed three to nine months ahead of publication to all the people

who help sell the book

They need the information to enter the title in their catalogues to secure

advance orders.

You have now reached the stage where you should be able to discuss the content of the

topic with your group.

Identify the basic principles and techniques in marketing.

4.2 Study of consumer needs

Around manuscript delivery, the author completes a questionnaire.

The author will supplies personal information, a biography, a advertisement, a

short synopsis, the books main selling points and intended readership or

applicability courses, lists of print and broadcast media that might review or

publicize the book.

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4.3 Display, promotions, book fairs, book reviews

a) Display

The books or other publication materials can be displayed on various

formats of book display shelves, for example display wall shelves,

glass display shelves, etc.

b) Promotions

Free publicity and public relations

Engineering free publicity in the print and broadcast media is more

important in consumer book publishing than in any other effort.

Publishers should make a contact with press and magazine editors,

journalist, radio and television producers.

At the manuscript stage, the publicist targets the market and

formulates a publicity plan.

The key part is identifying the appropriate media that would be

interested and helping them making decision.

Coverage is gained from features, author promotions, press releases,

parties etc.

Other publicity involves informing the trade press about the firm,

distributing bound proof copies to influential people, entering titles for

literary prizes, helping to plan and attend exhibitions, maintaining

contact with the publishers association etc.

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c) Book Fairs

There are many other book fairs in various countries; and many

specialised fairs as well.

Examples of book fair at international level are Frankfurt Book Fair,

London Book Fair, Singapore Book Fair, and Kuala Lumpur

International Book Fair.

At national level, examples are: KLCC Book Fair, Popular Book Fair

Malaysia, KL Book Festival.

Book fairs have existed as meetings for trade since books were

invented.

Originally they were places where merchants could buy and sell

manuscripts; they have always had an international element, and even

the earliest book fairs were patronised by dealers from various

countries.

Book fairs can now be divided into two main categories:

Rights fairs, where publishers sell rights in books to publishers from

other countries, and also meet agents and representatives; and

Selling fairs where books can be sold to the visitors from the stands.

d) Book Reviews

Once bound copies are received, a review list is prepared, tailor-made

for the title, taking account of the authors ideas and contacts.

The review copies are sent out with a review slip which details the

title, author, price, binding, ISBN and publication date and request a

review.

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You have now reached the stage where you should be able to discuss the content of the

topic with your group.

Discuss on how to promote book publications.

4.4 Royalties

Royalty is a payment made by one party and another for ongoing use of an

asset or intellectual property

All book publication royalties are paid by the publishers

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4.5 International markets, E-commerce applications

It would have been perverse to focus our attention away from the processes

that actually create the value for the majority of publishing businesses that is

the value chain leading to the printed product. But we have remained aware

that e-publishing has huge potential for publishers, particularly in reducing the

massive costs involved in physical distribution, opening up hitherto

uneconomic geographical markets, and in creating new revenue streams via

innovative products and services. It also has unpredictable consequences for

the value chain, perhaps leading to the elimination of some players, the entry

of new competitors and the creation of new intermediaries.

This potential threat and opportunity has been repeatedly examined in the last

few years, not to mention being the subject of a great deal of hyperbole.

Rather than adding to this by speculating about what might happen, we have

tried to focus on the observable effects in the whole value chain of e-

publishing at the user interface.

There is a strong awareness of the efficiencies to be gained by using ICT in

both the transaction process and the production process. According to our

survey, the emphasis until now has been on supporting transactions with

customers rather than with suppliers, although advertisers are in a sense both

customers and suppliers and there are similar issues of definition in other

sectors, eg journals.

Publishers in general plan to increase their investment in e-commerce and

ICT to enhance their competitiveness. While most of publishers were most or

quite likely to enhance their e-commerce and e-business activities in the next

three years, assuming general economic growth.

The publishing industry shows very strong awareness of the potential for e-

commerce and e-business technologies in optimising editorial and production

processes and sales and marketing and ordering processes. The potential for

creating new products and services is mainly seen as a more long-term

objective (looking 10 years out) with the exception of journals and books.

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4.6 Factors Affect the Market

Reading habit

Language

Economy

Publication concept

Education level Source : taken from Google image

Existence of new author

4.7 How to Increase Market

Translation

ICT technology

Variety

Special program

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At this point you should be able to:

Understand the principles and techniques of book marketing

Identify the customer needs

Describe the issues of book promotions

a) Briefly explain the concept of marketing

b) Briefly explain the element of royalties in publishing.

c) Briefly explain the differences of these concepts:

Display

Promotions

book fair

book review