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| | We are one of the oldest specialist North American distributors and have been providing marketing and distribution services to academic and specialist publishers from around the world for almost 30 years. Our client publishers, over 60 in number, cover a range of different subject areas including the social sciences, humanities, law, natural sciences, medical sciences, literature and religious studies. Many of the client publishers are based in the UK, but others are based in Ireland, continental Europe, Asia and Australia. To help reduce the cost of getting books to the US, a consolidated shipping service is available from the UK with shipments going more or less weekly.
Recognizing that its clients produce specialist books ISBS, has developed a range of services geared to its publishers and their customers including extensive direct mail campaigns, displaying books at academic conferences and specialist trade events, sending books to review media, teleselling to specialist book sellers, supplying data in a range of formats to various online bookstores and books in print databases. Some direct mail campaigns utilize the publisher's own catalogues, others are based around subject catalogues ISBS produces to bring together similar books from different publishers, and smaller highly focused subject flyers all of which are widely mailed to audiences that include specialist bookstores, wholesalers, library suppliers, librarians as well as individual academics, professionals and other specialist book buyers.
It is probably worth noting some of the distinguishing features of the ISBS approach that we believe have made a significant contribution to the spectacular sales growth and name recognition that many of its clients have enjoyed. Firstly, ISBS always tries to emphasize the publisher's name in promotional materials, so that over time the publisher gains a clear identity in the North American market and with potential authors. Secondly, we encourage and welcome input from client publishers and their authors, and thus try to maintain a close working relationship with both. Thirdly, unlike some other companies providing marketing and distribution services, we do not publish our own books and are thus free from potential resource conflicts to focus on client's titles. Another point of note is that we take the credit risk so publishers get paid even in situations where ISBS cannot collect from the customer
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920 NE 58th Ave Suite 300
Portland, OR 97213
Toll Free 1-800-944-6190
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