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Welcome to our Consignment Program

Congratulations on writing and publishing your book! If your book is a good fit for Andover Bookstore, we have an established path to house and sell your work here.* We have a thriving local author section, and we love how these books help us reach a wider audience and expand the diversity of our stock. Our consignment program allows us to carry and feature a much wider variety of self-published and print-on-demand titles than we could through traditional purchasing. Please scroll down and please read our guidelines before submitting a book for consideration.

*As a matter of principle, we do not carry books published with Amazon or any of its imprints (KDP, Create Space, and others). In addition to the workers’ rights violations, union busting, and large carbon emissions expelled by Amazon, it is a corporation pushing independent publishers and bookstores out of business. We put care into the work of bookselling, and Amazon goes against our mission and threatens our existence as a small independent bookstore. It doesn’t make good business sense for us to sell its imprints.

General Consignment Terms

Books must have a spine displaying the title and author’s name (no spiral-bound books).

We charge a basic administrative fee for a consignment is $50.

Upon sale, we pay 50% of retail to the consignor.

HugoBookstores agrees to display books on a consignment basis for a minimum of six months. As books sell, we may request additional copies from the consignor.

If there is a six-month period without sales, we will return books by mail.

Twice a year we will send payment accrued from book sales to an address provided by the consignor. Payments will be sent in January and July.

We will pay only for items sold. Damaged or stolen items are the sole financial responsibility of the consignor.

Local Author Promotional Packages

For $100, we will host an in-store author event, feature your book for one email newsletter blast to our store mailing list, and promote it on our social media.

Successful Consignment Tips

Encourage friends, family, and other contacts to purchase your book at Andover Bookstore.

Contact your local media and mailing lists to announce that your book is available at Andover Bookstore.

Send out press releases, review copies, and other promotional materials.

Get involved with book clubs, libraries, and other community organizations. Greater success comes from a wide array of author-coordinated promotion.

We understand that this program won’t appeal to every author. However, this system has proven to lead to greatly increased sales as well as giving the author participation in the marketing and sales of their new book, a key to success.

Consignment Contract