Distribution Partners

Multi-Media Publication's books, ebooks, audiobooks, and DVDs are available through many general and specialty book wholesalers and distributors around the world. Some of the notable ones are described below.

Wholesalers

	Ingram Book Group - World's largest book wholesaler. U.S. -based. Supplies mainly bookstores. Important wholesaler to reach independent bookstores. (North American and International Distribution)
	Baker & Taylor - Founded in 1828. The second-largest book wholesaler in the U.S., and the largest supplier to schools and libraries. (North American and International Distribution)
	NACSCORP – Supplies book to members of the National Association of College Stores. (USA)
	Gardners Books - Largest U.K. wholesaler.
	Bertram - Second largest U.K. book distributor.
	Overdrive - Leading wholesaler of ebooks and downloadable audiobooks. Major supplier to the library market.
	Mobipocket - ebook wholesaler and retailer in Mobipocket Reader (PRC) format. Owned by Amazon.com and now the exclusive ebook provider to Amazon.
	Lightning Source – Large ebook wholesaler, supplies most of the major internet ebook retail sites.

Distributors

	Quality Books – U.S. book distributor to libraries.
	Unique Books – U.S. book and audiobook library distributor.

Library Jobbers

	Coutts Library Services – Wholesaler of North American and U.K. titles to academic, research and public libraries worldwide. Owned by Ingram.
	Blackwell Book Services - Large international library services company with warehouses in the U.K., U.S., and Australia. Established 1879.
	Bertram Library Services (formerly Cypher Group) – Largest U.K. library supplier. Owned by The Bertram Group.
	Dawson Holdings - Europe's leading supplier to academic and research libraries.
	Holt Jackson - U.K.-based supplier to public and academic libaries, corporations, prisons, and government. Owned by Gardners.

Retailers

Among the many traditional and online bookstores that carry our products, there are a few key ones we would like to highlight:

	Amazon.com – Large online book retailer offers nearly all of our products, many available at a discount off of the list price. Amazon hosts book tour and related promotional information for some of our authors.
	The Book Depository - A lage U.K.-based book retailer with free worldwide shipping from its main distribution centre in Gloucester, England and 8 fulfillment centres in the U.S.A.
	Barnes & Noble - Largest national chain of book retail stores in the U.S. Their online store www.bn.com, is the second largest U.S. online bookstore. Our books are stocked in both physical and online retail locations.
	Simply Audiobooks – An audiobook specialty retailer operating a successful online audiobook download service and an audiobook club rental service in Canada, the U.S.A., and the U.K.
	AudiobookStand – Online audiobook download service offers most of our audiobooks for sale via immediate online download in a copy-protected format.
	Borders – Large U.S.-based chain of bookstores. Borders sells MMP books and audiobooks through its online portal.
	Books 24x7 – Supplier of business and technology-related ebooks to employees of large corporations.
	Diesel eBooks – Online ebook retailer offering all of our ebook products in multiple formats. Customer loyalty points, discounts, and excellent customer service. Highly recommended.
	All Romance eBooks – All Romance eBooks (ARe) is a distribution site for electronic romance. Features: ARe offers readers superior sorting by sub-genre, title, author or publisher, with secondary sort capability by best-selling, highest-rated, length, and most recently added. Customers can store their downloads in an on-line library where books can be rated for overall enjoyment and heat level. Tabulations of sales statistics and customer ratings occur in real-time, giving readers up-to-date information that they can use to make purchasing choices.
	Books On Board – A one-stop shop for audiobooks & ebooks: bestsellers, new releases - Adobe, MS Reader, Mobipocket and Palm formats!
	eBookMall – eBookMall is a leading retailer of eBooks. It offers a full range of genres and subjects in all major eBook formats including Adobe, Microsoft Reader, Palm, and Mobipocket. eBookMall.com receives over 7,000,000 Website hits per month and lists over 25,000 eBooks in its catalog.
	Fictionwise Inc. – Excellence in eBooks. Award winning and free eBooks for all PDAs and PCs by top authors! Palm, PocketPC, Hiebook, eBookMan, Adobe, MS Reader, and WinCE eBooks. Monthly contests. All new eBooks discounted each week. Advanced bookshelf features, bulk download, ratings system, artificial intelligence systems to recommend eBooks to members.
	WH Smith Online – The UK's biggest bookseller and an established and respected name both on the High Street and on the Internet. WHSmith is the Microsoft-preferred e-books retailer for the UK. The site sells e-books in Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket Reader, and Adobe Reader formats.

In addition to these sample book retailers, many of our books are sold through professional societies whose chapters offer our titles at chapter meetings as a fund raiser.

We also sell titles through non-traditional retailers. For example, we have a DVD for boaters on celestial navigation (navigating using the position of the sun, moon, and stars). This DVD is sold through marinas and other boating retailers. Other examples include our book 101 Things You Should Never Say to Your Spouse which is sold in bridal shops -- these alternate outlets make up some of our most interesting customers.

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