Publisher Services and Distribution from Booktopia

“Booktopia Publisher Services, the company’s distribution arm, has “over 500 bookstores and businesses as its customer base”.”

— https://www.thebookseller.com/news/australias-booktopia-starts-publishing-imprint-1093081

Market leading online bookseller Booktopia offers warehouse space to publishers on this site. Though oriented towards publishers, authors or small press publishers with a particularly compelling offering may wish to approach them. Bookstores can order titles from Booktopia and the titles are also listed on other sales channels. A short article from Books and Publishing here.

Booktopia's Post-covid Woes

The Age newspaper has quite a long and interesting article on the post-covid slump in sales and earnings by Booktopia, Australia’s biggest online bookseller. A bookstore owner is quoted as gloating at Booktopia’s issues, but independent authors will be more ambivalent — Booktopia offers a real avenue for sales, and is much easier to get into than bookstores. There are very few viable options for distribution into bookstores for independent authors, post the demise of Dennis Jones.and Associates.