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Fulfillment and Warehousing Services

Gropen Associates hosts this directory as a free service to the community. We hope it helps you find just the professional you need!

We don't provide any of the services below.

Please do ask us about any financial or operational problems. We provide advice to publishers on an inexpensive "question-by-question" basis. We also offer software packages, helping you tackle common issues independently.

Contact us for assistance whenever you face a difficult situation. If it's not Marion's area of expertise, she probably knows who does cover it!

Book Clearing House
Offers standard fulfillment services (warehousing, inventory, etc.) as well as national accounts reps and 24 hour order processing, with credit card charge processing tossed in.

BookMasters
Related to Atlas Books, this company offers some distribution services and fulfillment. Offers warehouse services, customer service, order and returns processing, and many other services. They handle "to the Trade" and Direct To Consumer.

Florida Academic Press
They accept all credit cards, orders by toll-free phone, fax, email, shopping cart, with no monthly nuisance fees. A straight 20% commission, s/h ($3.75) charged to customers, and monthly payments remitted six weeks in arrears. They know small publishers needs, because they are one.

Intrepid Group
This small firm offers both pick and pack only and a more traditional full-service fulfillment option. They promise more personalized attention, and a more informal approach to dealing with clients.

iShip
Find the best shipping rates and services from multiple carriers.

Lightning Source, Inc. (LSI)
Can do fulfillment when you print your books with them, and of course, you also get into Ingram.

Pathway Book Service
Book fulfillment plus CD,video and other non-print fulfillment (games, gifts, puzzles, novelties etc.). Courteous and knowledgeable customer service, immediate shipment, and accurate sales analysis and inventory reports, plus complete accounts receivable management. Complements your direct marketing and e-commerce efforts. All provided at a flat fee based on net sales - no hidden charges, no surprises. 

Publishers Storage and Shipping Corporation
PSSC was set up to serve publishers without warehouse facilities or to supplement pre-existing warehouse facilities that a publisher may have. Orders can be shipped via USPS, UPS, FedEx, common carrier, air courier, or private conveyances to all points, both domestic and foreign.

Rayve Productions
Offering warehouse services, as well as order and returns processing and shipping. This small press is offering their excess warehouse capacity to other publishers.

Sheridan Group
Owns Sheridan Printers. Will handle fulfillment for the books they print.

Tuttle Publishing
This independent press (a member of the Periplus world-wide group of publishers) offers some of their excess capacity to other small presses. This type of arrangement can work to the advantage of all concerned.

Ware-Pak
Ware-Pak has focused its energies entirely on serving the publishing industry for the past 40 years. Our accomplishments include mapping solutions that improve the fulfillment and distribution process. Our improved systems allow us to provide you 99.9 percent perfect inventory control information. And, we provide this tracking information on line, in real time.

Whitehurst and Clark
Provides both order processing and warehouse and shipping services.

 

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