Towards a safer deal.
Recent distribution failures have prompted the Independent Publishers Guild to work towards a template publisher/distributor contract. While there are many excellent book distribution companies, business failures usually share similar characteristic, new IT systems, loss of profitability by the dist...
| Publicado en: | Bookseller no. 5101; pp. 22 - 25 |
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Bookseller Media Ltd
10/31/2003
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