Alongside our award-winning physical distribution, we also provide digital distribution of e-products to consumers, retailers and wholesalers on the publishers’ behalf.
With us as your Digital Distributor, you benefit from our own first hand experience of ebook formatting and delivery on behalf of Random House Group, the expertise we are building up in this area, and our established processes and proven systems.
Cost-effective, instant reach with your ebooks
Quick, easy and accessibly-priced. We securely store, process and deliver your ebooks to wholesalers, retailers and direct to consumers (purchasing your ebooks from your website), as we do for physical books.
You send us a pdf/e-pub file for each title and its associated metadata once, and we do the rest.
You retain complete control of which wholesalers you wish manage your on-selling, and define the formats and rules for onward sellers, and we deliver on your behalf.
Wholesale/retail
We are also working with digital wholesalers (such as Overdrive) to allow our clients to opt into the terms and delivery systems we already have in place, to deliver ebooks to multiple re-sellers on your behalf.
- Achieves good sales reach for your ebooks and maintains a quality e-product and service, whilst minimising work, cost and inconvenience for the publisher.
- No need for you to strike deals with every wholesaler, or for your team to FTP multiple files in multiple formats to multiple locations.
- Competitive fees with low set up cost.
- Access multiple wholesalers (and therefore retailers) in one 'hit' through us
- Short lead time for set up, and quick turnaround to make new titles available on the 'digital shelves'
- Low risk - as we're already doing it for Random House, and have robust contracts with the wholesalers we work with.
Direct to consumer
Seamless and efficient ebook delivery, already in operation on www.rbooks.co.uk, and fully integrated with our E-commerce platform and ebook packaging and DRM systems.
- Swift launch of ebook fulfilment on your website (especially for those with our Ecommerce solution – see separate tab under Publishing Services on this website).
- Provides a proven, efficient and supported service, able to be integrated with physical book sales, if desired.
- Technical customer services to help your end consumers with any download issues.
For those with our Ecommerce solution, and our Distribution Service for physical books, we take orders on your website for both your physical and e-products, transacting on your behalf and integrating with the fulfilment systems for both physical and ebooks, to deliver products directly to your end consumers, whether physical books via mail, or ebooks via links on the web.
This provides a simple, one-stop shop for your website purchasers, with an intuitive and reliable means of selling direct – whatever the product and delivery method.
For more information, please contact Tanya Price on 01206 255851.