Working with a handful of volunteers, he would deliver more than 4.25 million books into Tibetan hands in one of the largest free book distributions in history.
Advertising and subscription income and book distribution bring in about the same amount.
He had been working in book distribution for large multinational companies in Puerto Rico, like Walmart and Walgreens.
Although Ingram, which is based in Nashville, is a dominant force in book distribution, it does not disclose its market share.
The two would have been a force in book distribution and a serious competitor to Hachette Livre.
Two competing visions of the future went head-to-head online yesterday as HarperCollins and Random House launched contrasting new experiments in book distribution on the same day.
Raised in a family that spent 25 years in the traditional book distribution business, some might think it's strange that I have chosen a non-traditional method to publish and sell the first in a series of anthologies on a subject I'm deeply passionate about: women's stories and voices.
(I now had name-recognition) And suddenly, the leading book distribution chain of that era got in touch with me, offering to now sell the book.
He is selling "trade books" which account for only 25% of the wholesale book market: the primary problem in trade-book publishing is book distribution.
