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  1. Title This article is really a sub-article of Understanding Book Sales Reports. Please click to see that page before this one, unless you have already seen it. On our publishers' sales reports,  invoices and picking lists the field used for Title is what we call the short-title on our ...
  2. Copies Sold This article is really a sub-article of Understanding Book Sales Reports. Please click to see that page before this one, unless you have already seen it. Copies Sold will refer to Month, Year to Date, Life abbreviated as "Month", "YTD" and "Life" "Copies Sold" is the net sales in copies, ...
  3. PubEasy   Update 27th June 2017 Central Books are very pleased to be joining the successful PubEasy web service in late July 2017. We hope this will further enhance the PubEasy service adding over 400 publishers and 29,000 titles. For Central Books this is part of a program for improving its ...
  4. Trade Tariff: Commodity codes, duty and VAT rates When books and magazines are exported or imported queries often arise about commodity codes and VAT duties. There is a very useful UK Government website www.trade-tariff.service.gov.uk that can better answer many of the queries you may have than this article can.  The key thing is that ...
  5. Xmas and New Year Trading Central Books always closes down on bank holidays (English public holidays). Depending on how Christmas Day falls we sometimes close for 1 or 2 additional days. If you wish us to send a small order to the UK it will probaby go 2nd class packet post. So please place any website orders before ...
  6. EORI Numbers An EORI number is a European Union registration and identification number for businesses which undertake the import or export of goods into or out of the EU. The Central Books EORI Number is GB232206902000. If you have a UK VAT number you should be able to find out your EORI number go to ...
  7. General Data Protection Regulation In accordance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Central Books agree to act in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and will ensure that all personal data collected and stored on behalf of the publishers we distribute.  As a ...
  8. EU - European Shipments Since Brexit we have learnt a lot about sending consignments to Europe. It has not got any easier but both ourselves and many of our customers have learnt how to work with these disrupting circumstances. We are having to use many different courier services for different weights of consignments ...
  9. Free Copy and Gratis Requests Many of our client publishers will at  times ask us to despatch goods on their behalf to send out as complimentary copies, event stock or consignment stock to their overseas distributors.  Please send all such requests to frees@centralbooks.com.  Be sure to give us the full ...
  10. Barcodes on Books Bar Codes Are No Longer Optional Sorry to say that to talk about Bar Codes one has to introduce various acronyms.  There is a glossary for these at the bottom of this page [see below]. Central Books require Bar Codes on the books and magazines we stock. This helps us enormously with ...
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