Every day an author and a publisher lose a sale. These are the stories why.

Submit a Lost Sale

Submit Your Lost Sale Story

Fed up with digital book pricing, books not digitized, or geographical restrictions? Frustrated with the formats the books you want are published in? Want to make your voice heard? Submit your Lost Sale Story. We are compiling the stories and making authors, agents and publishers know that we have money and we want to spend it but they aren't making it easy.

Please make sure that the story you are submitting is for a book that is out. We've had a number of "pre release" stories. Thanks folks.

Your name*

Enter the name you want to appear beside your submission.
Email*

This will not be shared but it is included in hopes of cutting down on spam. If a publisher or author or agent requests contact with you, you will be given the choice of accepting the contact or denying the contact. We will not give your personal identifying information out to anyone without your permission.
Name of Book*

Enter the name of the book you wanted to buy
Author First Name*

Enter the Author's first name. If this is an anthology or collection, enter the headliner's name. He or she is usually the first name on the cover with the biggest font.
Author Last Name*

Enter the last name of the author.
Agent's name (optional)

If you know, you can enter the name of the author's agent or agency. In many cases, the reason that the book isn't published in a certain territory is because the author hasn't allowed the publisher to do so. Rights start with the author and are sold to the publisher through the agent.
Publisher*

Enter the publisher of the book that you wanted to buy.
Other Publisher

Enter the name of the publisher of the book you wanted to buy.
Retailer of lost sale (optional)

You can enter the name of the retailer from whom you wanted to purchase the book, but could not. If you tried multiple places, you can enter that as well.
In what country do you live?*
Preferred format*

What format did you want to buy?
Reason for Lost Sale*

Enter the reason that you did not buy the book.
What You Did Instead of Buying the Book*
Other: Reason for lost sale*

Enter a one line reason for lost sale. More comments can be made in the comment entry area below.
Price*

Enter the price of the book you wanted to buy. Enter only the number. For example: 9.99, 6.99, 5.99, etc. In the next field, choose your currency.
Currency*

Currency of the value
Other: What you did instead of buying the book*

Enter one line of what you did instead of buying the book.
Comment

Tell us more about your lost book experience.