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.

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

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

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: 

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.

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.

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.

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.