That works!

I think that’s exactly it, no North American sales rights seem to be more of an issues than lack of distribution options. I am hoping someone with some UK publishing insight chimes in.

Unfortunately, no. I do source from Raincoast and have the most success with them but there are still many titles from publishers they distribute that are not available through them. Seems to be more of an issue of rights than distribution.

I’m sure our small population and massive geography are to blame, but it is difficult for a very small shop to navigate. Even the university presses, for UTP I have to place orders for different publishers through different sales reps - to the same distributor!

So frustrating! I only opened the shop last year so I’m still learning how everything works, but my experience so far is that distribution is so much more complicated in Canada than in the UK or US.

I think it’s that there are no NA rights mostly. Here in Canada, we don’t have a wholesaler like Ingram, I deal with distributors or publishers directly.
I ask my HarperCollins, Penguin, Hachette and S&S reps for their own UK titles all the time but they aren’t making them available in Canada.

There absolutely is. It does my head in watching these brilliant books being released and not being able to stock them. Not to say there aren’t great books published on my side of the pond but the UK really excels in the subjects I’m most interested in - history & non-fiction travel especially.

Bleets! I like that! Let’s go with that.

Hmmm, that IS on my list. Good suggestion!