{"id":7097,"date":"2026-06-04T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:23:30","slug":"how-to-sell-books-to-bookstores-w-maureen-karb-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/how-to-sell-books-to-bookstores-w-maureen-karb-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Sell Books to Bookstores, w\/Maureen Karb | A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sales reps are crucial pieces of the book industry puzzle. They are the the ones who help stores find the titles that would be good fits, give feedback to publishers about their title lists, and so much more! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week on the pod, we&#8217;re back chatting with sales rep extraordinaire Maureen Karb to talk about the process of selling books to bookstores, and what makes a great rep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/microcosm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.<br>Get the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales reps are crucial pieces of the book industry puzzle. They are the the ones who help stores find the titles that would be good fits, give feedback to publishers about their title lists, and so much more! This week on the pod, we&#8217;re back chatting with sales rep extraordinaire Maureen Karb to talk about&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/how-to-sell-books-to-bookstores-w-maureen-karb-a-peoples-guide-to-publishing-podcast\/\" title=\"Read How to Sell Books to Bookstores, w\/Maureen Karb | A People&#8217;s Guide to Publishing Podcast\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,12,11,26],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogifesto","tag-books","tag-business-of-publishing","tag-interviews","tag-podcast"],"my_excerpt":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Sales reps are crucial pieces of the book industry puzzle. They are the the ones who help stores find the titles that would be good fits, give feedback to publishers about their title lists, and so much more! <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>This week on the pod, we're back chatting with sales rep extraordinaire Maureen Karb to talk about the process of selling books to bookstores, and what makes a great rep.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/microcosm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.<br>Get the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n<p>Sales reps are crucial pieces of the book industry puzzle. They are the the ones who help stores find the titles that would be good fits, give feedback to publishers about their title lists, and so much more! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week on the pod, we&#8217;re back chatting with sales rep extraordinaire Maureen Karb to talk about the process of selling books to bookstores, and what makes a great rep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prefer an audio experience?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/microcosm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast app<\/a>.<br>Get the\u00a0<em>People\u2019s Guide to Publishing<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/books\/3663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, and the workbook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/catalog\/zines\/10031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>!<br>Want to stay up to date on new podcast episodes and happenings at Microcosm?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/confirmsubscription.com\/h\/r\/0EABB2040D281C9C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Subscribe to our newsletter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7098,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}