IBPA webinar - The Mechanics Of Distribution & Forming Publisher-owned Distribution Cooperatives

What if the answer to distributing your books wasn't a full-service distributor with a sales team OR going it alone?
Recorded on Jun 12, 2024, IBPA members and our friends from PubWest, CLMP, and former SPD client publishers joined for this discussion and exploration of what the future of distribution for independent publishers might look like... and how we might manifest that future together.
Joe Biel of Microcosm Publishing / WorkingLit software presented, and:
-explained how Microcosm outsold even the biggest distributors by distributing themselves,
-unpacked the nine steps of distribution (and how a la carte distribution really is), and
-outlined the mechanics of how publisher-owned distribution cooperatives might work.
Joe was joined in the discussion by Ambika Sambasivan and Suhani Parikh (Sambasivan & Parikh), Marc Fisher (Half Letter Press), Meia Geddes (Poetose), and Tamara Mayo (Taevo).
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