Book Distributors and Self-Publishing with Dan Poynter

Dan Poynter fell into publishing. He spent eight years researching a labor of love. Realizing that no publisher would be interested in a technical treatise on the parachute, he went directly to a printer. The orders poured in, and the author was suddenly a publisher. Dan has since produced over 80 books and revisions, some [...]

Book Distributors

Book distributors sell books to bookstores and wholesalers. Although it may sometimes be possible to sell directly to bookstores, most booksellers prefer dealing with a few wholesalers and distributors rather than entering into transactions with thousands of publishers. Although many people use the terms book wholesaler and book distributor interchangeably, they are different. Book distributors [...]