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We sell to a wide range of accounts, from chains to non-traditional outlets. We sell at head office level on a monthly basis, and directly to individual shops.

BOOK CHAINS
Waterstone's
Opened in 1982 and now has over 300 stores, including 6 superstores. As well as selling to head office on a monthly basis, we also cover individual stores nationally.
Borders
Borders currently has 41 superstores, in city centres and retail parks, and 28 high street and airport stores trading as Books Etc. As well as selling to the Borders head office we also visit the individual Books Etc stores.
Blackwell's
Now over 125 years old, Blackwell & Co,is the market leader in UK academic and professional bookselling. It has over 60 bookshops, and six flagship stores including the central London Charing Cross Road and the Oxford Broad Street Stores.
WH Smith
Still packing a punch after all these years, Smiths are still the pre-eminent player for all mass-market books.
WH Smith Travel
A discrete part of the WHSmith - with over 200 stores, from large airport operations, to railway stands, to small kiosk outlets in tube stations.

WHOLESALERS
Baker and Taylor
The world's largest book and entertainment distributor, Baker and Taylor offer a database of more than 4 million titles to a huge variety of customers, including the National Trust, department stores and garden centres.
Bertrams
Offer a broad range of initiatives to help promote your titles to the independent sector, including Bertm@il, Bertdeals, Buyers notes, and many seasonal promotions and media tie-ins. Together with Gardners they take the lions share of the UK wholesaler trade market, and increasingly supply export accounts.
Bookspeed
Scottish-based wholesaler who in the last few years have made substantial inroads in the supply of books to heritage and gift accounts throughout the UK, beside fulfilling their traditional role of promoting Scottish and Mind, Body and Spirit titles.
Camelot
Based in Cardiff and, beside its specialist Welsh books market, supplies bookshops and newsagents and also provides library supply and servicing.
Easons
Easons are the main wholesaler book supplier in Ireland. They also have 45 retail shops in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, with a central Dublin flagship store.
Gardners
Gardners have access to over 15,000 retailers in the Uk. Their customer base includes Amazon, Coutts, Cricket clubs, English Heritage, Liberty, Saga Magazine and Play.Com.

LIBRARY SUPPLIERS
We sell to all the UK and Ireland's library suppliers.

INDEPENDENTS
The independent sector is thriving once again, with new shops opening monthly. We visit independents throughout the country, and are happy to assist in arranging promotions with them.

MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
We visit these regularly, and are increasing the number of art and lists we carry to supply the thriving gallery market.

HIGH STREET STORES
We sell to all the major department stores, from Harvey Nichols to Heals, and to a variorum of high street stores from The General Trading Company to Urban Outfitters.

GARDEN CENTRES
A substantial and growing market, taking a wider range of books than in previous years.

GIFT SHOPS
A growing market - books are increasingly being seen as part of the retail mix in many retail establishments.