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The Collapse of Small Press Distribution
Last week, Diane Goettel was on vacation in Florida when she saw an alarming email on her phone. After 55 years, Small Press Distribution (SPD)—one of the last remaining independent book distributo…
On the other side of the country, the executive editor of Noemi Press, Sarah Gzemski, was about to hop on a Zoom for her day job at the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson when she received a text about SPD. Even further, most distributors (including SPD, before it vanished) employ sales teams that work to get copies in Barnes & Noble, independent bookstores, and other retail outlets like gift shops. “Having to submit claims and figure out what may or may not be owed puts a significant burden on these small operations, especially when we’ve heard from some presses that they no longer have access to sales reports,” Gannon says.
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