Delivery Charge

From the 1st May 2025 Central Books will change its handling fee for small orders from trade customers.

We will charge £6.00 for orders that are for less than £150.00 retail value (the value of the goods supplied before any discount is applied).

If you wish us to consolidate supplies to avoid this charge, please contact orders@centralbooks.com. We will try our best to consolidate orders so that retailers avoid these charges.

This revised delivery charge applies to trade customers based in the UK and those overseas customers that ask us to supply their books to a UK based shipper or consolidator.

Accounts based outside of the UK where Central Books deliver direct to the account are charged postage already and this delivery charge does not apply.

When calculating the value of the order we will take into account orders that we are able to record where the title is not currently available. However, we will not count publications that are not available at the time of ordering where we are not asked to record an order.

Magazine Customers

For magazine customers this charge does not currently apply to standing order releases. If you wish us to give a top up or restock orders, please contact your usual magazine contact at Central Books We will then add them to the next despatch of your magazine standing orders. Please note we are looking at system changes that will enable us to better merge book and magazine deliveries to customers that take both books and magazines from us. Once this system change is in place we may update how delivery charges for small standing orders release work. We will inform magazine customers when we make these changes.

A standing order for a magazine is where a shop has agreed to take a fixed number of each new issue of a magazine.