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At last

Category: Publishing , Company News , Bookselling
At last PW has a major editorial on...distribution. While not the sexiest part of the business, it is the part that is most profoundly important when, as in the case of Dave Eggers's new book What is the What, stores find themselves scrambling to order a "sleeper hit", and no one can supply it due to arrangements with a major distributor who...goes bankrupt.

And while the PGW/AMS debacle is in its own way as complicated as Enron to explain, the upshot is this: all those publishers that PGW distributed, which AMS took on when it bought PGW? All those publishers who suddenly had half a prayer of getting into Costco and Wal-Mart? Well, their money's all tied up in court. Meaning...the authors ain't gettin' paid, the stores ain't gettin' the books delivered - and it ain't just the mid-list/small pubs who are affected. Major publishers like Random supplied books to AMS as well - massive quantities of books. And those sales aren't happening, those books aren't getting delivered either.

Horrors.
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Posted by Laura Dawson , January 25, 07, 3:32 PM , comments(0) , permalink , Email this post
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