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Associated
Bag
Sells lots of different packing supplies for what seem to be good
prices.
Bookplateink
Does exactly what the name says: makes book plates – those little pieces of paper you stick into the front of a book with a message or an autograph.
Bookscan
The premier source of point-of-purchase sales data for books. Collects something like 70% of all the sales through the book trade.
Bowker's
ISBN site
Where to go for all ISBN related questions.
Customs Broker: Meadows Wye & Co., Inc.
If you're printing outside the US, you probably need a customs broker. They help you avoid a plethora of problems. This is one that has been used by a number of publishers.
Editorium
Program Add-ins for Microsoft Word: A program add-in is a collection
of macros that run in Microsoft Word, making it do any number of things
it couldn't ordinarily handle, such as finding and replacing multiple
items, cleaning up common editorial problems, and extracting embedded
footnotes. All of our programs include batch processing, letting you
do in minutes what used to take hours.
Font Finder at Esperfonto
An unusual resource that suggests fonts based upon a wide range of criteria.
Format
A
free email newsletter for those who use the software to produce
publications.
Freelance Permissions
Helps to identify rights-holders and clear permissions on all those tricky quotes, excerpts, illustrations, etc. that you'd really like to include.
G
and A Precycling
Boxes new, and mildly used, for much less
than usual prices. Not re-cycled, pre-cycled.
In
My Book
Great greeting card/bookmarks (usually sold in
bookstores and library stores) also make nice little gifts
and acknowledgements for potential investors, donors, associates,
and help support marketing and sales efforts.
iPage
Ingram's information service: Some of this is available to anyone, and more to those companies that are Ingram Vendors. Whether or not you have access to Bookscan numbers, you should subscribe to this, too.
Linton Labels
A source of labels and mailing supplies, including various types of boxes, mailers and envelopes. An informal and self-deprecating humor informed their site, last I looked. Sound like nice folks.
Pallet Trucks at Global Industrial.com
These are the inexpensive manual jacks on wheels that let you move pallets around without a forklift. A must if you're doing much of your own fulfillment.
Ref
Desk
A fact-checking resource, full of interesting
niches and articles.
Tiger's
Eye Society
An e-Zine site, with a live newsfeed
for researchers. There are also links on the home page,and
on the news section to assist with research.
ULine
A very popular source of mailing supplies for publishers.
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