Skip McGrath's Wholesale Resources |
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Books, Movies and MusicBook 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. 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. Ingram Book Group - Ingram is the largest book wholesaler in the United States. They supply major and independent book stores 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. 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 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. Their website is under reconstruction, but you can email them through the web site for product list and pricing. Another related company is World Trading Center. They sell their products in retail displays, but you can buy a selection of products and just toss the display packaging. FaithWorks Launched in 2000, FaithWorks provides sales and distribution for about 300 Christian publishers and music labels into the Christian marketplace. Formerly a division of National Book Network, it has been bought by Send the Light, a UK publisher. International Specialized Book Services 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. Mascor Publishing is a publishing company with all sorts of unusual titles. They will drop ship, but it is probably more profitable to just buy outright from them after you have made the sale. Almost all of their titles are always in stock. Bookworld is one of the largest and best know distributors of books to small retail stores and web site sellers. Publishers Group West represents dozens of medium sized publishers. Consortium Book Sales & Distribution represents over 70 publishers from the US, UK, and Australia. The Deal Dude sells thousands of highly discounted books on almost every subject. BG International sells children's books. Jeff Adams Books (No web site) Stocks thousands of hard back and paperback books. Fax Jeff at (716)454-6072 for a list. KOEN Booksellers is a wholesale distributor of titles by independent publishers.
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'sInternational 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 DVA is a great distributor of specialty DVDs. They have a specials program for small quantities (1-5 each) and a true wholesale program in you want to buy in large quantities. 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. Given all the crowding in the DVD market that might not be a good place to go, but savvy sellers know that there is a great market for niche DVDs. There are people always looking for DVDs on specialty subjects such as Martial Arts, Niche music, cult films, documentaries and so on. One supplier of a lot of offbeat titles is Mountain View Movies. Another DVD supplier is Spinning Disk. They have a drop ship program, but I haven't looked into it so I don't know much about it, but you may want to check it out. Another company is World Trading Center. They sell their products in retail displays, but you can buy a selection of products and just toss the display packaging. 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. SDCD is a large distributor of music and movie videos. They carry over 2 million titles and will work with small online sellers. MusicCloseout stocks thousands of titles of CD's, DVD's, and VHS. Their minimum order is $100 and they offer FREE Shipping in the US: 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.
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