OSBORNE PORTER

Literary agency now offer authors books onto their website.

The Osborne Porter literary agency has been working on getting authors’ books onto their website in downloadable, PDF format, so that anyone – anywhere in the world – can buy an author’s book.

This process has many advantages: The reader does not have to wait for the book to be posted or even to visit the bookshop. The book is available almost immediately, at any time of the day or night, to anyone with internet access. There is easy payment through the site and the cost is approximately half bookshop prices. New books, in many genres, are added monthly.

The benefits for the author include a wider audience for book sales while this process does not affect other book publishing deals. There is an extremely reasonable, once-off, Upload Fee - Osborne Porter commission is only 15% which is much lower than discounts required by most bookstores or distributors. Readers are likely to review the book – good reviews help Osborne Porter to promote the book to publishers

Once paid for and downloaded, the reader has two choices – either to read the book on the computer monitor or laptop screen or print it out and read it in the traditional way.

“The debate continues as to whether or not this form of reading and accessing books will replace the traditional method of printing and binding the books, but whatever the future holds, we feel we need to keep ourselves and our clients up to date with modern technology,” explain Ginny Porter and Helen Osborne.

Some authors have already submitted their books for promotion in this way – see www.osborne-porter.com

Those authors wishing to upload their book onto our site should contact Ginny on 082 730 9384 or email: info@osborne-porter.com