our consignment policy

Book Ferret welcomes submissions of books by local authors for consideration.

Books considered for consignment must meet the following criteria:

  • Authors must reside in the Winston-Salem area.

  • Books must be professionally proofed, edited, designed, and published.

  • Books must have a spine showing the title and author.

  • Books must have an ISBN printed on the back cover.

  • Books must be priced comparably to others of its type.

  • Books must be appropriate for our store (e.g. it should not be in a genre that we do not stock or promote.)

  • We do not accept books published by Amazon or its imprints.

  • Books must be available via Ingram.

  • Book Ferret reserves the right to reject a book for any reason.

If we accept your book, we will pay you 60% of the retail price for any copies that we sell. We regularly review the status of consignment titles. If a title does not sell well, we request the author pick up unsold copies. Copies that are not picked up within one month are discarded or donated.

If after reading this you would like us to consider your book, please send an email to consignment@bookferret.com and provide the following information:

Contact Name:

Author Name:

Title:

ISBN:

Publication Date:

List Price:

Brief Description of Book:

Link to Author’s Website (Note: An Amazon book listing does not qualify as your website):

Where do you reside?

Are you a Frequent Ferret?

An image of the front and back of your book, plus several sample pages.

Thank you for sharing your book with us. We wish you every success.