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American Wholesale Booksellers Association
http://www.awba.com/
Organization that represents the concerns of book wholesalers. Site has descriptions and links to member wholesalers and an interesting position statement on why we need wholesalers in the distribution food chain.
added September 4, 2001

Baker & Taylor Book
http://www.btol.com/
Baker & Taylor, a leading full-line distributor of books, videos, and music products, welcomes you. Our new site is focused on you - our customer - how you do business and the services you
added August 16, 2000

Ingram Book Company
http://www.ingrambookgroup.com/
Ingram Book Group is a leading wholesaler of trade books and related products, but being big doesn't mean we're unresponsive. In fact, customer service has always been the cornerstone of our success. For more than 55 years, we have been innovators in developing new ways to meet and exceed the needs and expectations of our customers and suppliers. Customers from all over the world rely on us for fast, easy order fulfillment.
added August 16, 2000

Ingram Periodicals
http://www.ingramperiodicals.com/
Ingram Periodicals Inc. (IPI), a direct distributor of more than 3,000 magazines from more than 1,100 publishers sells to over 7,500 independent bookstores, newsstands and chain accounts, including Barnes & Noble, Borders, hastings, Tower, Media Play, CompUSA, Waldenbooks and others, throughout the United States and Canada.
added August 16, 2000

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
http://www.mainewriters.org/
Founded in 1975, MWPA is a nonprofit literary organization with over 1600 members in 30 states and four countriesöthe largest literary organization in the U.S., per capitaöand the only one with a book distribution service. We are writers, publishers, readers, editors, librarians, teachers, booksellers, illustrators, and other word mavens.
added August 16, 2000

Small Press Distribution
http://www.spdbooks.org/
The only not-for-profit wholesaler that deals exclusively with independently published literary books and magazines. Their site now offers online ordering!
added June 27, 2000

Small Press Traffic
http://www.sptraffic.org/
For over 25 years"since Nixon was President!"Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center has been putting our money on contemporary writers of all age, ethnic, and socioeconomic and cultural groups. We believe that the most innovative, radical, and important writing is often found in the work of authors not represented in mainstream media.This writing needs to be heard, and our mission is to identify such work (ready!), nurture it (aim!), and bring it to new and loyal audiences. Fire!
added August 16, 2000

The Bookmen, Inc.
http://www.bookmen.com/
Distributor of books from publishers of all sizes.. ...We are delighted at your interest in our Web site, but we do sell wholesale only.
added August 16, 2000

The Distributors
http://thedistributors.com/
Founded in 1971 as a wholesaler of conventional and alternative publications with a modest list of fifty titles with a half-dozen accounts, the distributors has grown to become a full service wholesaler serving more than 3,500 retail bookstores, major chains, schools and libraries throughout the United States with list of 20,000 different titles from all major publishers and over 1,500 smaller presses.
added August 16, 2000



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