How to Get Your Book into Libraries Across the US

This video has an updated version you can access right here: https://youtu.be/2YHgaaRMH5c If you're self-publishing a book and hoping for library distribution you'll need to watch this video. Here’s a detailed description of how to get your book listed in the Library of Congress, and set yourself up to be in the librarians database. Library distribution could be a dream come true for an author. There are more than 119,000 libraries across the United States ... so that is a lot of potential book sales if they buy your book. Watch more videos on new authors willing to self publishing their books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxOGUfR20KE&list=PLh6B5bRioc1xQzeJ11ADz8Ia9k7AKZOES&index=1 Subscribe for our weekly videos on self publishing a book: http://www.youtube.com/c/booklaunchers?sub_confirmation=1 If you are interested in self publishing your book, visit Book Launchers website: http://booklaunchers.com/ Connect with us on social media: http://twitter.com/booklaunchers http://facebook.com/booklaunchers Video transcript: Imagine your book in the biggest collection of work in the US if you want to see your book in libraries across the United States and in the Library of Congress stick around. Maybe you've been focused on getting your book in bookstores or worrying about what its gonna look like on Amazon but you might not want to forget about all of the libraries there's over a hundred thousand libraries in the United States now if you want to get your book in libraries there's a few things that you can do but one of the most important is getting that Library of Congress listing. You want to know how there's three criteria your book must fit in order to qualify for a Library of Congress listing and that doesn't necessarily guarantee you'll get the listing but it's where you need to start the first thing is your book can't be published yet very important if it's already published and you haven't got your listing it's not gonna happen. NUMBER TWO: Book has to be published in the United States and on your copyright page you need to list the address of your office in the United States where they can send inquiries. NUMBER THREE: Your book must be available in print so ebook only not eligible so assuming you fit those three criteria here's what you need to do you're gonna head to this link let me show you you're applying for the PC in which is the pre-assigned Control Number program it's the only option available to indie publishers now that link that you're heading to that's the link for the Library of Congress pre-assigned Control Number program. When you get there click this to open an account make sure you qualify so give all this exciting text a read to make sure because there are some exclusions like mass market trade paperbacks text books and magazines and such assuming you qualify go ahead and complete the application to participate. You'll have to enter information like the publishing house your ISBN number and the contact details of the person in charge by the way have all this information handy because you're gonna need it when you go to get accounts with create space or Ingram spark or other print-on-demand providers so just keep it by your desk for the next little while because you're gonna be asked for this information a lot. It doesn't guarantee a listing nor does it ensure libraries will carry your book but because you have to do it before you publish if you think you might want library distribution and this is what you need to do now you're done that part you may want to take a final step and invest a hundred dollars to get a PC IP data block created so what is all this well David wolken has a great book that will help you with all this riveting stuff from ISBN numbers to copyright to registration and it explains clearly what this PC IP block is now just because I didn't know what it was at first either this is the PC IP block and basically if you get this you'll have to spend about a hundred dollars to have somebody who knows what they're doing craft that block of numbers and letters when you have that it puts your book on the online database for librarians to access and they'll know what it all means so if you haven't published your book yet and you're US based I highly recommend you at least do the free portion of this and if library distribution is really important to you and something you're going to pursue then go the extra step spend the hundred dollars that it costs typically to get your PC IP and get your book listed in libraries so you can access that huge extra distribution market.