BookMasters Distribution Services Optimize, Customize, Compete

Welcome to BookMasters Distribution Services, a full service, master distribution service for independent publishers. We offer your business the flexibility and efficiency to meet the challenges of today’s market. BookMasters Distribution Services brings you a set of vertically integrated services that can increase your profits all along the publishing value chain.

BookMasters Distribution Services’ range of fully flexible, high quality distribution services include:

Fulfillment: Whether you need one book shipped direct-to-consumer or carton quantities shipped to a major trade account, BookMasters Distribution Services offers you a single source to handle all your fulfillment and distribution needs. Our state of the art distribution center brings you an industry-leading Warehouse Management System to handle pick, pack and ship functions, as well as inventory control, backed by a strong management team that delivers highly flexible and responsive customer service.

Credit & Collections: Effective credit management and collection is at the heart of our business and yours. With annual sales of $100m, the BookMasters Group has the experience to get the job done. BookMasters Distribution Services’ dedicated accounts receivable team has the right relationships with customers to make sure that your bills are paid in full and on time.

US and Canadian Sales and Marketing: Our top flight sales unit is led by seasoned professionals with outstanding experience across a broad spectrum of book market sectors: that means you get the right mix of networks and market knowledge to help you compete with the best and maximize your sales.

Multi-channel sales and marketing services: We also offer the multi-channel sales and marketing services you need to support your sales in a range of market sectors. We produce and mail a broad array of seasonal catalogues for our clients, including promotion material for Trade, Academic and STM, and Special markets. Our marketing services include campaign development and management and publicity services. We customize all our marketing services in close collaboration with clients to ensure optimum efficiency and results.

International Sales and Marketing: BookMasters Distribution Services works in partnership with our clients to develop right international sales strategy market by market. With an established global network that stretches from Europe to the Australia's, we have the reach you need to optimize sales in the world’s fast-evolving English and Spanish language book markets.

E-Commerce Services: As wholesalers and retailers require ever-increasing levels of digital data and services,  BookMasters Distribution Services can help you keep pace.  Our e-commerce services are defining best practice with the largest and most demanding book vendors in the US. We can provide clients with secure, web-based real-time reporting, digital distribution of bibliographical information to industry databases, POS, EDI, ASN and full metadata uploads for all your content.

Transportation Management: Taking advantage of economies of scale in transportation is just one of the ways  BookMasters Distribution Services can help you to optimize your business efficiency and profitability. Every year the Bookmasters Group ships hundreds of millions of dollars worth of books domestically and worldwide. We have the scale and savvy to buy better transport services for less. And we’ll share the benefits with you.

Customer Service: As dedicated specialists in book distribution, we believe that it’s our job to be there for you and your customers whenever you need us. That’s why we offer a unique 24/7 customer service platform that can handle an order or answer a customer’s question from anywhere in the world in real time.
 
Direct-to-consumer sales: Direct sales by phone, mail and online are becoming an ever larger component of the publishing sales and marketing mix. We bring you highly competitive services in this critical area. We offer a strong direct to consumer service that can be used as a stand alone service to promote key titles, or to support your own online promotion activities.

Trade show presence: With our own branded booths at BEA, London, Bologna, and Frankfurt book fairs,  BookMasters Distribution Services gives you a powerful presence at all leading global book shows. We also attend the major US regional trade shows, ALA, SLA, major toy fairs, and an array of other trade and professional shows to ensure that your books are in front of the widest range of target customers.

Manufacturing and Digital services: BookMasters Distribution Services' position within the BookMasters group means that we are able to offer our client publishers a unique end-to-end suite of integrated publishing services. Our vertically integrated distribution, printing and production, and digital services can be customized to your exact specifications so you can enjoy maximum control at minimal cost.

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