Archive for 'distribution'
Tuttle Publishing to distribute Asian Art Museum books
The Asian Art Museum has made an agreement with Tuttle Publishing for the exclusive distribution of all Asian Art Museum books. Not only will Tuttle distribute new books going forward, but existing distribution agreements are being terminated, and Tuttle will handle the museum’s backlist as well.
The arrangement with Tuttle should give the museum more effective [...]
Posted: March 20th, 2008 under distribution.
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Amazon-France tussle continues
As noted before, the Europeans are less sanguine about large internet companies than is the U.S. In France, Amazon wanted to offer free shipping to its customers. But France has a law intended to protect booksellers from predatory competition. The International Herald Tribune summarizes:
The 1981 Lang law was passed at a time when booksellers were [...]
Posted: January 16th, 2008 under bookstores, distribution.
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Flexible pricing or independent booksellers who pay for readings?
The chains’ dominance of the bookstore segment of the U.S. book publishing industry is a result of the value the country places on open competition. Would you be willing to give up bargain pricing if it meant a thriving culture of independent bookstores and a system that rewards authors with a comfortable yearly income? According [...]
Posted: October 15th, 2007 under bookstores, distribution.
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10 Questions: Jeffrey Lependorf, Executive Director, Small Press Distribution / CLMP
Ten Questions is an occasional feature in which folks involved in some aspect of publishing kindly oblige my interrogative impulses. Today I’m talking with Jeffrey Lependorf, who serves as executive director of two three different nonprofits, Small Press Distribution, based in Berkeley, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, based in New York City, [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2007 under community, distribution, marketing, publishing.
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