Will my book be available for my library to buy as an eBook? 

Yes. Sage are committed to enabling student access, accessibility and fair and sustainable pricing. Find out more about our eBook offering here, and read our statement on eTextbook provision here.

How do I access Sage eBooks?

There are several different ways for institutions or individuals to access Sage eBooks:

• Direct from eBook Vendor
• Single Title Access Codes and VLE Integrations
• VitalSource, Kortext, and BibliU Institutional Schemes
• VitalSource Explore (Collections)
• Library Textbooks (Talis)

Find out about the options and how to access each one here. You can also speak to your local Sage representative to discuss which of the options is best for you or your students.

When will my book be available as an inspection copy?

If your book has adoption potential, it will be available as an inspection copy as soon as it is published (if applicable).  Electronic inspection copies are typically available by publication date, as we have the digital book files available right away.  Any teaching faculty who have ordered or are being sent an electronic inspection copy of your book will receive an email from Sage advising that it is available, with instructions on how to access it.  Anyone being sent a print inspection copy will receive it around 2-4 weeks after publication, as the book stock will be sent to our warehouse, then sent out again from there. 

You can view an outline of your book's publication timeline, including inspection copy dispatch, here.

I have suggestions for contacts to send inspection copies and/or review copies of my books to. Who should I send these to?

If you send a list of teaching contacts to market@sagepub.co.uk, we can send digital inspection copies. For each contact, we need the following information:

• Name, institution, department, institutional email address, and the name of the course that they teach
• Don’t forget to include details of your book as well, so we know which book to send them!
• If any of your contacts are unwilling to review a digital copy, please ask them to get in touch with their local Academic Sales Consultant.

For any review copy requests – contacts sharing their thoughts on social media, press or academic outlets – please supply:

• Influencers: Details of their social media account and number of followers
• Journalists: Details of the publication for which they write for
• An email address to send a digital copy

Can Sage provide promotional materials to help me promote the book on social media?

Yes, when the cover of your book has been finalised, your editor will send it to you alongside social media images and flyers that you can use to promote the book. You can find tips on how to use these images, as well as a timeline for promoting your book on social media in this guide.

Can Sage provide flyers to help me promote my book?

Yes, your editor or marketing contact can provide you with digital flyers. As part of our environmental mission to minimise paper wastage, we encourage the use of digital flyers.

I'd like to promote my book within my emails.

To promote your book to your network via your personal emails, you can add either a simple line of text and a link to your book or add a signature with an image included. You can save the cover of your book from our website – just go to your book's webpage. When linking to where your book can be ordered, links you can use include the Sage website, Amazon, the Bookshop.org platform, Blackwells, Hive, World of Books, eBooks.com and Kortext. A quick Google search should offer guidance on how to then create your email signature, or you can use the help function within your email provider. An example of an email signature with an image, based on the templates provided by Outlook, is as follows: 

Can Sage provide free copies of my book for marketing?

In addition to your contractual author or contributor copies, Sage can supply digital marketing copies for review purposes, or to your contacts who might be considering using the book in a course that they teach (see above). We may also be able to provide a limited number of promotional copies for other purposes, such as in support of an event. If you would like to request a copy, please email details, including the full title and ISBN of your book, to market@sagepub.co.uk.

Remember, authors are eligible to receive a 25% discount across any Sage title, and 35% off your own book. To place an order, contact our Customer Services Team at orders@sagepub.co.uk, or if based in North America, contact orders@sagepub.com.

How can I find out more about marketing for my Reference book?

You can read our dedicated guide about sales and marketing activity for your Reference book here. If you’d like ideas on how to promote your Reference book, we also have a dedicated guide with suggestions here.

Can Sage help with my book launch or event?

There are a number of ways Sage can support a book launch or event that you are organising.

Books for sale or display:

• If you are planning to buy 10+ copies, or would like to resell copies at your event, please contact Nicola Maullin at orders@sagepub.com who can arrange this for you

• Your author or contributor contract with Sage indicates your provision of complimentary copies of your book, which you may wish to use for a book display at your event

• As a Sage author you are also entitled to 35% off your own book; if you would like to buy additional copies, please contact Customer Services.

Promoting your launch:

• Your editor or marketing contact can supply a flyer for your book. These can be used to share digitally or printed to hand out to anyone you invite to your launch

• Your flyer will include a discount code that you are welcome to share with launch attendees, so they can buy your book from the Sage website

• You are promoting your book launch on social media, please tag our channels ('Sage', 'Sage Books' & "Business & Management from Sage' on LinkedIn; @Sage_Publishing on X; @Sage_Publishing on Instagram; and @sagepub.com on BlueSky) – we can then either like or repost, which will extend your reach to our followers.

• If your event involves a discussion or speech, you may wish to write this up for the Sage Perspectives blog to broaden the reach of the event and create additional exposure for your text. Please ask your editor for more information

If you have queries about any other aspects of support, please contact your editor.

I am talking at an event (live or online) and I would like to offer a discount on my book for delegates. Can I have a discount code to share with them?

Yes! The flyers that your editor will have sent to you include a discount code option. Please feel free to share this with delegates at your event. If you haven’t received a flyer, please contact your editor, marketing contact or market@sagepub.co.uk.

Will Sage be attending a particular conference?

Sage attends very few in-person conferences, however do inform your editor if you are attending a conference, just in case it is one where we will be present.

Conferences can be a great opportunity for you to promote your own book. Do take flyers – your editor should have shared a flyer for your book with you – to share with your network, and add details of your book to your email footer so it’s visible to any contacts you communicate with before or after the conference. You may also want to add your book cover to your social media background so that it’s visible if you post using a conference hashtag.

Query about PR and Sage Corporate Communications

Stay in touch with Sage news via the News Room and on X. If you have corporate-level news you’d like to discuss with us, please contact pr@sagepub.co.uk.

How should I prepare my manuscript for submission?

If you are interested in publishing with Sage, check out our Book Proposal and Manuscript Guidelines page and view our guidelines for assistance with submitting your manuscript. 

I have a pre-publication question about my book (e.g. about publication date, cover design, author/contributor copies)

Please contact your editor.

Why is the Amazon date for my book different to your publication date?

The publication date for external retailers such as Amazon is 14 days after the publication date mentioned by your editor. This external publication date takes into account when stock becomes available, when Amazon orders are likely to arrive and how long, on average, it takes to process and deliver stock. This prevents books from having an out-of-stock message on Amazon on publication. When stock arrives in our warehouse, the pub date on Amazon and via other retailers is updated to reflect the new publication date in our system. 

Can my book be translated?

Sage has a dedicated foreign rights team that promotes and sells translation rights of our books. This team works directly with international publishers rather than with individual academics or translators. If you are approached by someone wanting to translate your book, please suggest that they find a suitable publisher before approaching Sage. The rights team can be contacted here: foreign-rights@sagepub.com

I'm interested in bulk ordering copies of my book (10+), whom should I contact?

Please contact our Customer Services team at orders@sagepub.com.

I have a question about sales and royalties

Authors receive royalty statements annually in October, unless otherwise agreed in your contract. Your statements will break out print and digital unit sales, and revenue, as well as your royalty share. Revenue share from any content included in sales of library products like Sage Research Methods will also be shown. For specific queries about royalties, please contact UKBookRoyalties@sagepub.com.

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