Currently Central Books attend two annual trade fairs, Frankfurt Book Fair in October and London Book Fair in March or April. We offer shelf space to magazine and book publishers that we distribute. We do charge publishers for their shelf space, but the price is a fraction of the cost of taking ...
Since 1939 Central Books has been distributing books and magazines to bookshops, specialist outlets, individuals and institutions.
We work with over 400 books publishers and handle over 200 magazines. We are proud of our relationships with publishers and many of whom have been with ...
If you are a client publisher please click here for the more detail version of this information.
Many of our client publishers will at times ask us to despatch goods on their behalf to send out as complimentary copies, their own mail order sales, event stock or consignment stock to their ...
Since 1939 Central Books has been distributing books, magazines and other related products to bookshops, specialist outlets and individuals.
If you are interested in working at Central Books we suggest you have a look around our website to get an idea of the services we give to publishers, ...
The following are remainder merchants that have bought books more than once from Central Books when publishers wanted to reduce stocks. Remainder Merchants have become choosy in recent years and sometimes will not make offers on books presented to them. They often want to see samples.
If ...
For our publishers we provide online data showing all their sales at https://central.bookweb.co.uk.
We provide our client publishers with logins for https://central.bookweb.co.uk . If you do not know your login send an email to you usual contact and ask how you can log in to ...
This article is in development, we hope you find it useful although not all the links are working perfectly yet.
Most publishers get our standard invoice value sales report if you are paid as a percentage of retail value please search for an alternative kbase article. (Please note publishers ...
Some of our publishers have problems opening the csv files we send them. The columns are not split up and the inverted commas still show. This is more common for MAC users than for other operating systems. We hope these instructions solve the problem.
Instructions for opening CSV (COMMA ...
ISBN - International Standard Book Number (Previously 10 digits now 13)
Within the Central Books database some tiles do not have an ISBN, for example standing order records. In the "Understanding Standard Book Sales Report" example or dummy report "Maternity Handbook" with a report SO is such ...
Central Books has a number of short hand codes for format on its data base.
The three most common are H for hardback, P for Paperback and M for Magazine
The full list is:
C CDRom
D DVD
G General (covers items that fit no other format code)
H Hardback
M Magazines
N Map-Digital
O ...
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