In a significant shift, Disney Publishing Worldwide will move worldwide sales and distribution to Penguin Random House Publisher Services starting April 1, 2023. Marvel Publishing will expand their relationship with PRHPS as well, to include collected editions and graphic novels to be distributed to trade bookstore retailers and wholesalers. (Marvel first started working with PRHPS in 2021 for distribution of comics to the direct market.) Disney Publishing leaves behind a longstanding relationship with Hachette Book Group, which has distributed their books since 2013 (and did so up until 2007 as well, before Disney spent six years working with HarperCollins). Disney’s […]
Distribution
Distribution: Microcosm and Consortium
Microcosm Publishing & Distribution will be the exclusive worldwide distributor of comics publisher Birdcage Bottom Books and and the book publishing program of Don Giovanni Records. Starting May 28 for the fall 2022 season, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution will distribute Swiss book and game publisher Helvetiq, children’s publisher River Horse Publishing, and multicultural comics and speculative fiction publisher Rosarium Publishing.
Distribution: Fernwood Publishing, Big Dreamers
Fernwood Publishing and Big Dreamers are now sold by Ampersand and distributed by University of Toronto Press Distribution.
Distribution: Union Square & Co.
Pinnacle Booksales will distribute Union Square & Co. books in the UK starting July 1. Pinnacle will also oversee distribution in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia via its partnership with SaltWay Global.
Distribution: IPG Adds Three Publishers
The Salariya Book Company will be distributed by IPG staring May 1; AdiDev Press will be distributed by Trafalgar Square Publishing starting June 1; and New Reading Technology is now distributed by IPG.
Distribution: Harriman House
UK business and finance publisher Harriman House is now distributed by Macmillan in the US and Canada.