Barnes and Noble Logo for website

[alhawke]

It never ceases to amaze me the fine details we have to know when publishing a book. Well here's another.

I would like to place a banner or logo of Barnes and Noble into my website as a buy button. I'm wide and I've already searched the internet for allowed buttons for Kobo, Amazon and Apple. Turns out that each corporation has legal rules on what is allowed when showing their brand. In fact, Youtube is the most stringent. I had to send Youtube a copy of my webpage and wait for their approval.

Here's the question: I've emailed Barnes and Noble three times and I'm getting circular emails with no answer. Does anyone know a webpage that has allowed B&N logos? Does this retailer care if I use anything?

If any of you don't know about this stuff, check it out. You could be violating their terms. PM me if you need any logos. I don't have the links but I could send you the allowed logos I just I've saved from Kobo, Amazon, & Apple if it'd help anybody.

[Eric Thomson]

This is one of the many reasons I use Books2Read to create the UBLs for each retailer.

[RPatton]

I couldn't find any branding for B&N and ended up going to a trad publisher, seeing what they used and then found the same image through google images. I ended up using the image available through WikiCommons because I figured that was probably the safest bet.

https://www.google.com/search?q=barnes+and+noble+transparent+logo&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjBiKii773yAhXGe6wKHTAoBosQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=barnes+and+noble+transparent&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgAMgUIABCABDIGCAAQCBAeMgYIABAIEB4yBggAEAgQHjIGCAAQCBAeOgQIIxAnOgQIABAYOggIABCABBCxA1Ck2QNY6PYDYKCPBGgBcAB4AIABbYgB5AuSAQQxNy4xmAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=jbceYYGOG8b3sQWw0JjYCA&bih=747&biw=1600&client=firefox-b-1-d#imgrc=tXJZVsIV8sLd8M

[alhawke]

This is one of the many reasons I use Books2Read to create the UBLs for each retailer.

Yep, that's easiest. I'm using a Books2Read link too. But this is for individual retailers to show direct on a web page.

I couldn't find any branding for B&N and ended up going to a trad publisher, seeing what they used and then found the same image through google images. I ended up using the image available through WikiCommons because I figured that was probably the safest bet.

I might just do this. I'll look into it, thanks!

[littleauthor]

I have a Nook button that I found ages ago for B&N and I use Books2Read too.
I'll see if I can find the image link.

[LilyBLily]

This is going to sound like a really basic, dumb question. Do you upload paperback files to wide venues other than Ingram Spark? I never have bothered beyond CreateSpace/KDP because so very few paper copies sell on Amazon it didn't seem worth trying to court other markets directly. Am I supposed to be doing that? I have my own ISBNs.

[alhawke]

I have a Nook button that I found ages ago for B&N and I use Books2Read too.
I'll see if I can find the image link.

Thanks, but I nabbed one after all my due diligence that's very universal. I'm going to use it and hope for the best (otherwise I'll be advertising everywhere but B&N and I'd think B&N wouldn't like that either).

This is going to sound like a really basic, dumb question. Do you upload paperback files to wide venues other than Ingram Spark? I never have bothered beyond CreateSpace/KDP because so very few paper copies sell on Amazon it didn't seem worth trying to court other markets directly. Am I supposed to be doing that? I have my own ISBNs.

I publish with Ingram AND Amazon. When I found my book unavailable in multiple countries a while back, I realized the only way to always have it avail is through Amazon. I sell few paperbacks outside of Amazon myself. You can distribute through B&N direct, but I've never done that and all my paperbacks end up on B&N through Ingram anyway (B&N is my 2nd biggest paperback seller (I can track by rank)).

[LilyBLily]

I did a careful survey of my paperback sales when CreateSpace was ending. Only my sole nonfiction title had wide sales through the Amazon second title wide method (not Extended Distribution, which is a ripoff). I put that title on Ingram and have never bothered to list the others there. (I publish all my books in both ebook and paper).