Simon & Schuster will sell and distribute Rising Action Publishing worldwide starting June 1.
Distribution
Distribution: Red Comet Press
Abrams will now sell and distribute Brooklyn-based independent children’s book publisher Red Comet Press. Abrams will sell titles in North America, while Abrams & Chronicle Books will sell titles in the UK and Europe.
Distribution: Storytel and OverDrive
Storytel will make over 25,000 audiobook titles produced by company-owned publishers available to OverDrive’s library clients around the world. The companies note, “This agreement will offer access to an unparalleled and culturally diverse selection of tens of thousands of premium audiobooks in 20 languages.” Storytel head of catalog management expansion markets Stefanie Lamprinidi says in the announcement: “We are excited to be entering into this partnership with OverDrive to offer our vast and diverse language catalogs of high-quality audio stories, spanning the wide range of local and international titles to libraries, schools and their users around the world,” “We share […]
OUP Shipments to Be Disrupted During Systems Upgrade
Oxford University Press will pause some of its distribution operations in its US and UK warehouses as it upgrades to a new resource planning system. “For a number of weeks” between mid-March and mid-April, the company “will not be able to process sales orders or invoices, issue purchase orders, or respond as quickly as we would normally do to customer and supplier queries,” they announce on their website. “Shipments from our UK and US warehouses will also be disrupted during the same period and some purchase options on our ecommerce sites will also be offline.” In the US, they will […]
Distribution: Gemini Books Group, And More
Igram’s Two Rivers Distribution will distribute Gemini Books Group in North America starting July 1. IPG will now sell and distribute: Universitas Press globally; NIAS Press in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, and Central Asia, and non-exclusively in South Asia; TCU Press worldwide, excluding North America; Griffin Publishers worldwide; and dr.Herriot worldwide.
Distribution: New IPG Clients
IPG will sell and distribute Firefly Press in North America starting March 1; Monogatari Novels in the US and Canada starting March 1; Northwestern Publishing House worldwide starting April 1; and Iskanchi Press worldwide starting April 1.