Yeah, don't do that lol it's not worth the money.
I wish I had done more research when I got published initially but I was kind of like the boys when they got signed. I was so happy to be published that I just signed my contract without really looking at it too much. Long story short, my book because it was unsolicited was put into a POD category which means print on demand. Not very many bookstores will put your books on the shelves when they are POD because they can lose money so big ones like Barnes and Noble and Walden etc... stay away from them. Sometimes they'll include them on their online store. When it first came out Mel's was on Barnes and Noble's site. I know some stores in Canada carried it on their actual bookshelves but yeah, basiclly they only print it when it's ordered by people.
Smaller places and privtae bookstores will carry POD books because they don't usually buy mass quantities of things.
Ah well, it was a learning process for me and now I have a better idea of what to do then I did the first go round lol