Skip McGrath's Wholesale Resources





 

Books, Movies and Music

Book distributors are listed first. Click here to see movie and music distribution resources.

By the way, if you want to learn how to sell used books, take a look at my best-selling book, How to Make Good Money Selling Used Books on eBay, Amazon and The Internet.


Noah's Ark provides a wide variety of items at discount pricing to stores, online sellers, distributors, & churches. Products include Christian movies and family movies on DVD, Christian books, gifts, t-shirts, ties, caps, Christian music CDs, Spanish products & more.

Mountain View Movies, is a wholesale DVD and Video Game distributor located in NY State. they specialize in purchasing closeout, liquidation and surplus stock from large stores and chains.

Ingram Book Group - Ingram is the largest book wholesaler in the United States. they supply major and independent bookstores and work well with both small and large online sellers. they also offer a dropship program where you can sell books on eBay and Amazon and they will drop ship them for you.

The MacBeth Corporation wholesales a nice line of religious products including books. They have a $50 minimum order size.

Associated Publishers Group Discounts books approximately 65% of retail, plus storage, returns, and catalog fees. They distribute about 2,500 titles. A division of Hambleton-Hill Publishing, this book distributor absorbed many publishers, personnel, and operations of Atrium Publishing Group.

Spring Arbor Distributors
The world's largest and fastest growing wholesale distributor of products and services to Christian retailers.

Gardners Books - The UK's leading book wholesaler, with over 150,000 titles in stock from over 1,650 publishers

Hot Records sells specialty music, instructional and entertainment CDs and DVDs and books. You can email them through the web site for product list and pricing.

International Specialized Book Services North American distributor for over sixty academic overseas publishers specializing in topics including Irish, Australian, Islamic, Judaic, and military studies.

Atlas Books, BookMasters distributes online and via wholesalers for many one-book publishers as well as some smaller publishers.

Diamond Book Distributors and the Diamond Kids Group. In business since 1982, this comics distributor now also distributes comics, graphic novels, Manga and Anime as well as toys and other pop culture products to the book trade. Client publishers include Antarctic Press, Graphic-sha Publishing, Avatar Press, ComicsOne, Toyspress, SQP, and IDW Publishing.

Publishers Group West represents dozens of medium sized publishers.

Consortium Book Sales & Distribution represents over 70 publishers from the US, UK, and Australia.

Jeff Adams Books (No web site) Stocks thousands of hard back and paperback books. Fax Jeff at (716)454-6072 for a list.

Bertrams - Bertrams is the UK's leading international book wholesaler supplying more than 100,000 titles to thousands of bookshops in the UK and around the world.

Movies, Music & DVD's

Celtic Music CD Store – The best way for small sellers to make money in the highly competitive CD market is to specialize in a niche. Celtic Music CDs sells Irish and Scottish folk music CDs, Renaissance Faire music, folk music CDs, and music inspired by Lord of the Rings CDs. (NOTE: Use the contact link to contact them about wholesale pricing.)

DVA.com has been a liquidator of books, movies and music for several years. But latterly they have expanded their line and now come up with all sorts of merchandise. Their merchandise changes every week. So what you want to do is go to the website and sign up for their email list. If you are an Amazon FBA seller, they will label and ship your purchases directly to Amazon for you. Use the contact form and ask to be put on their mailing list. Don't worry you won't get spammed. You will get one or two emails a week with offers.

Jay's Record and tapes, Inc. offers excellent deals on niche music CDs as low as $1.10 or you can check out his package deals of 110 CDs for $99.00. that works out to $0.90 per CD.

SDCD is a large distributor of music and movie videos. they carry over 2 million titles and will work with small online sellers.

The Entertainment Group is Canada’s largest wholesaler of DVDs and they also sell into the US.

International Wholesale Video carries Health videos, Science videos, Mind Body Sprit Videos, Fitness Videos, Cooking Videos, Travel Videos, Pet Videos, Horse Training Videos, and selected books.

A2Z CDs is a sweet little company that specializes in non-music and non-entertainment CDs. They have lots of educational, historical, informational and entertainment titles.

Provident Music Distributors distributes New Age and new artists. Very COOL web site

MusicTins is a distributor of classic music group collections sold in a tin box. You need to use the contact form on the website to get the wholesale pricing info.

In March of 2008 I featured an article in my newsletter about the niche of selling out of production CDs and DVDs on niche topics and special music collections such as folk, jazz, opera, classical, etc. That article was about finding those items used, but you can also find them new. Two leading suppliers are DV&A Distributors and A To Z CDs.

Horizons stocks over 2 million CD's, records and tapes.

White Swan Music Distribution is an independent music distribution of worldwide music that recently started selling the the US and Canada.

The International Marketing Group (No web site. Call for catalog) sells CDs by older Blues artists and Blues compilations. These are hot sellers on eBay. The International Marketing Group, 1-800-251-4040, sells mostly re-mastered original blues recordings by some of the all-time greats. These are not surplus or overstocks. They are new recordings and sell for as little as $2.75 each wholesale.