All distributors great and small

The Read - Booksellers NZ
 

When thinking about distribution, do you think of giant Australian distribution warehouses like Penguin Random House’s United Book Distributors? Or the other extreme, author and publisher Paul Little dispatching his recent titles from the basement of his wife’s suburban Auckland store?

They are the two ends of the spectrum of book distribution serving this country.

Jillian Ewart looked at United Book Distributors, Alliance Book Distributors, Upstart Distribution, Bookreps NZ, Paul Little, David Bateman, PDL, South Pacific Books and Nationwide Distribution; and talked to booksellers from around the country about how our distribution spectrum is working out for them. Read on.

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