TEACH Services, Inc.

Since 1984, TEACH Services has helped hundreds of authors publish and market their books. We are a full-service book publisher, offering authors editing, design, typesetting, printing, and marketing services. It is our goal to assist authors in producing a high-quality, professionally designed book.

Key Distribution Partners

United States

• Ingram
• Amazon.com
• Baker & Taylor
• Barnes & Noble
• NACSCORP
• Espresso Book Machine
  (By 2013, it is expected that over 129,000 Espresso Book Machine Print-On-Demand kiosks will have been installed in drugstores and other retailers that already have Kodak Picture Kiosks. For more information, click here , here , and here .)

UK/Europe

• Adlibris
• Agapea
• Amazon.co.uk
• Aprohead
• Bertrams
• Blackwell
• Book Depository Ltd.
• Coutts Information Services Ltd.
• Eden Interactive Ltd.
• Gardners
• I.B.S. - STL U.K.
• Mallory International
• Paperback Shop Ltd
• Wrap Distribution
• Superbookdeals
• Books Express
• Designarta Books

And many more....

Australia

• ALS
• DA Information Services
• Dennis Jones & Associates
• Emporium Books Online
• Footprint Books
• James Bennett
• Peter Pal
• The Nile

And more to come...

We partner with Ingram Books, who operates multiple plants and distribution centers in the United States, as well as international locations including Milton Keynes, UK (central to London); Maurepas, France; Melbourne, Australia; São Paulo, Brazil; Germany; and soon Japan. This means that TEACH Services’ books are available in bookstores nationwide, overseas, and on our Web site.

In addition to printed books, we are also actively engaged in the e-book market. Our titles are available in the most popular e-book formats including Amazon's Kindle, Barnes and Noble's Nook, Apple's iPad/iPhone/iPod, Google, and many others. This is an increasingly important element of publishing as more and more book buyers transition from printed books to electronic books. For more information, click here.

Our publishing packages are designed for you to get your book into world markets in an affordable manner. In addition, TEACH Services understands the Adventist market and has developed long-term relationships with the Adventist Book Centers, institutions, and retail customers who have been purchasing from us for years. Those books that qualify can be directly marketed to the Adventist community.

What Makes a Book a Best Seller?

According to Wikipedia:

“A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling or frequently borrowed titles that are based on publishing industry and book trade figures and library circulation statistics and then published by newspapers, magazines, or bookstore chains. Some lists are broken down into classifications and specialities (number one best selling new cookbook, novel, nonfiction, etc.). The New York Times Best Seller list is one of the best-known bestseller lists for the US. The New York Times Best Seller list tracks National and Independent book stores, as well as sales from major Internet retailers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.”

“In everyday use, the term bestseller is not usually associated with a specified level of sales, and may be used very loosely indeed in publisher's publicity. Bestsellers tend not to be books considered of superior academic value or literary quality, though there are exceptions. Lists simply give the highest-selling titles in the category over the stated period. Some books have sold many more copies than contemporary ‘bestsellers,’ but over a long period of time.”

Many authors believe their book should sell a million copies; however, most times that’s just a fictional Hollywood portrayal. In reality, only a handful of writers will ever write a best-selling book and it always depends on what you are compairing and some important variables, such as:

• Market size (Adventist vs Christian)
• Author marketing (How active the author is in promoting their book)
• Topic interest (Books appeal to consumers)
• Author’s writing style (Easy to ready, funny, informative...)
• Reviews and Recommendations
• Repeat purchase/gifting opportunities

Consider This...
In the secular world, the number of books being published in the U. S. has exploded. Many book categories have become entirely saturated, with many books on every topic. It is increasingly difficult to make any book stand out. New titles are not just competing with a million recently published books, they are also competing with more than seven million previously published books available for sale.

Bowker reports that over one million books were published in the U. S. in 2009. More than two thirds of these books are self-published books, reprints of public domain works, and other print-on-demand books, which is where most of the growth in recent years has taken place. Unfortunately, book industry sales are declining, despite the explosion of books published. The average U. S. nonfiction book is now selling less than 250 copies per year and less than 3,000 copies over its lifetime. Combine the explosion of books published with the declining total sales and you get shrinking sales of each new title.

A new book has less than a 1% chance of being stocked in an average bookstore. For every available bookstore shelf space, there are 100 to 1,000 or more established titles competing for that shelf space. For example, the number of business titles stocked ranges from less than 100 (smaller bookstores) to approximately 1,500 (superstores), yet there are 250,000-plus business books in print that are fighting for that limited shelf space.

We are in the early stages of an explosion in digital versions of books and digital sales channels for books and portions of books. The thin margins in the industry, high complexities of the business, intense competition in a small industry, rapid growth of new technologies, and expanding competition from other media will lead to even more changes and challenges in coming months and years.

In the real world, as you consider publishing your book as a seasoned or first time author, remember we are living in a time where many think, “I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing" (Rev. 3:17). God gave you the message and the testimony to share, and rightly so He will use it to bless readers, but always keep in mind that "one soul saved for Christ" will be worth all the time and effort involved in publishing your book regardless of the number of copies sold (RH April 1, 1880).

Where Does Each Publishing Dollar Go?