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Jackie Oh! says:

I do publicity on the side for a few authors and I can pretty much tell you that since you went with a dot.com publisher getting your book into the major bookstores is an uphill battle. You’ll be lucky if you can do it even in your state much less with a B&N or Borders.
First of all, they are considered vanity presses which means for a price anybody can get their book published and bookstores have never stocked those to the degree that they have traditional publishers.
Second of all, as a print-on-demand book bookstores are hesitant to order books they can’t return if they don’t sell and many print-on-demand books are non-returnable.
Thirdly, the only way to get your book distributed nationally with bookstores is to get it with a mainstream publisher, because the publishers partner with bookstores on quanitity of books and even the layout of the books in the bookstores.

Once in a blue moon you’ll hear of a small press or vanity press that has success on a national level. Treasure Trove was one from a couple years ago that had some national press on NBC and took off from there, but that’s the only one I’ve seen.

My advice to every writer is go through traditional methods for publication if you want to be a best-selling author.