Guidelines and Procedures

Guidelines:

Pages will only consider books that meet the following professional standards:

  1. The book must be professionally bound and finished. Books that are spiral bound, stapled or contain loose pages will not be considered. The title must appear on the spine and artwork should not be visibly pixelated.

  2. The book must be professionally edited with no obvious errors. Be prepared with the name of your editor.

  3. The author must be a current resident of the Detroit Metro area.

  4. We don't carry every genre in our store. Your books must be in one of the genres we carry. 

  5. An ISBN must be assigned to the book and printed on the back cover. 

  6. The book must be priced comparably to other titles of its size and genre.

  7. The book must be distributed by Ingram offer a full 40% discount and be returnable.

  8. The book may not contain any racist, sexist, homophobic, or overtly dogmatic content. 

  9. We don't accept authors who refer readers to competitor bookstores and online retailers on the acknowledgment page, or anywhere else within the bound pages of the book. This includes bookmarks.

  10. Consignment authors must visit our store to get a sense of the character of the bookstore and the type of books we do and do not carry. Not every book fits into our selection nor does your book fit in all bookstore

Please understand that books that do not meet all the guidelines above will not be considered.

Procedures: 

  1. Email susan@pagesbkshop.com and provide details of your book. Include information about you, title and genre, price, and why you think that your book will sell at Pages. Not all books sell in our store, regardless of who publishes them.

  2. We get a lot of requests to consider books. We will get back to you as soon as we can, but you will experience a delay in our response.  

  3. If your book is accepted for consignment sale, we will contact you by email to confirm our consignment terms. Authors must agree to the following three terms:

1.  Authors must list Pages Bookshop as a retail location prominently on their website and marketing materials; the more you encourage your readers to come into our store, the more your book will sell here! The initial consignment period is three months.

2. If your book sells at least one copy during that period, Pages Bookshop may choose to extend that period for an additional three month period until all copies have sold. Once all copies have sold, Pages Bookshop will contact you regarding restock and issue you a check for 60% of the retail cost of each book.

3. If your book fails to sell during its first or any subsequent consignment period--or if Pages Bookshop wishes to return your books for any other reason-Pages Bookshop will contact you to issue you a check for any sold copies and return your unsold books. Authors are responsible for all return shipping costs and Pages Bookshop is not responsible for any loss or damages incurred in the returns process. If you fail to make arrangements for pick-up or return of your books in four weeks, they will be donated. 

Finally, please note while your book is in our bookshop, we don't review books nor do we provide marketing services for your book. If you are interested in holding an event at our bookshop, please review our Event Request page.