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Richard
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Mar 19, 2020 07:59AM

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Or perhaps if you have a relationship with the bookstore owner. Given the author/title/ISBN, any bookstore can order your Ingram-distributed books.
I have a small but steady distribution to bookshops from Ingram, even though most paperback sales are via Amazon. Presumably these are from customer orders - perhaps those who hear about the book but don't want to boost Amazon profits.
The hardback edition is different. I have one book at the moment set up with Ingram as a hardback. As Amazon do not set up their own hardbacks and this book is linked on Amazon to the paperback, Kindle and audiobook editions, hardback orders on Amazon are fulfilled by Ingram.
Good luck!

Participating in one of the Ingram visitor days at their plant in Milton Keynes is well worth the trouble (when we've reached the end of the self-isolation tunnel). Fascinating.

I should have made it clear that I meant on-line stores.
Anyway, I can report - in answer to my own question - the Ingram distributed editions turned up on Amazon first, followed by Amazon-owned Book Depository, then Wordery, and now Waterstones. (No cover image provided on the latter, which is frustrating.)

Apart from Book Depository (and Amazon!), I think most online bookstores for physical books are extensions of major chains - Waterstone, WHS, Blackwell etc - so I suppose my comments apply as much to them as to the high street shops I had in mind when I commented.