The Axis Publishing & Distribution Company, LLC

Distributor - Sales company that represents a publisher's books to wholesalers and retail accounts and often also maintains an inventory warehouse.

Axis Publishing & Distribution Company, LLC is distributed by Amazon.com, Imgram Book Group and Follett Library Resources.

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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

- Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

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Nielson BookScan - A service provided by theNielson Company since 2001 that tracks book sales.  It is estimatedthat BookScan captures about 70% of total sales, as not all retailersreport to BookScan.

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With one sole pen I wrote this book,

Made of a grey goose quill;

A pen it was when I it took,

And a pen I leave it still.

- Philemon Holland, from a book he wrote in 1610

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A book  without a cover, almost always a mass market edition.  Because it is not cost-effective to return or remainder mass market editions, their covers are torn off by the retailer and shipped back to the publisher as proof the books have been destroyed.  The retailer then destroys the books.  This is the reason for the "If you purchased this book without a cover..." disclaimer on the first pages of many mass market editions.  Strippable books are marked with an "S"...

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.

- Eugene Fitch Ware (1841-1911)

Tis the good reader that makes the good book. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

The imprint is the "brand name" under which a book is published. Most major publishers have at least a few imprints. Some of these imprints are organized into divisions, as subsidiaries, or "companies within a company," with their own editorial staffs, release lists, etc. Others are strictly brand names slapped on a book purchased and edited somewhere within the parent publishing company. Often publishers use imprints to organize and manage all their authors and books within a certain genre,...

For several days after my first book was published I carried it about in my pocket, and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure that the ink had not faded.

- James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)

Mass Market - Also called "paperback" or "rack size," these are the "pocket-sized," paperbacks printed on lover quality paper and at a smaller trim size.  The price is generally in the $4.00 - $8.00 range.  Rather than being returned or remaindered, mass market editions are often stripped.