Christian Book Distribution

No one gets into publishing to have to worry about warehousing and fulfilling orders. Having your books distributed enables you to focus on writing and selling books and helps you save time and reduce costs.

BelieversPress provides you access to the services of STL Distribution, through a simple book distribution program tailored to the needs of authors, ministries, and publishers.

STL Distribution North America operates two distribution centers, one in Tennessee and the other in Nevada. Ninety-five percent of customers receive their shipments in two days or less using standard ground shipping. STL is managed and led by committed Christians with many years of experience in serving the Christian publishing and retail industry.

Note: If you want your book in stock at sites like Amazon.com on your publication date, you must sign up for distribution and submit your title information at least 30 days before your publication date.

Benefits

• Your titles are available for sale on the Believers Press Marketplace.
• Low cost – we are able to offer each author significant savings over pursuing a distribution solution alone.
• Your book is available for order from online retailers like Amazon.com, ChristianBook.com, etc.¹
• Your book is available for order by¹
  • Christian bookstores
  • Independent bookstores
  • Major chain bookstores such as Borders and Barnes & Noble
  • Major wholesalers such as Ingram, Baker & Taylor, etc.
• Zero expense to set-up e-commerce, credit card gateways, or merchant accounts on your own (unless you wish to).
• We process each transaction and pay you a portion of the sale.
• We handle all product fulfillment including product warehousing, order entry, picking and packing, returns and restocking, credit and collections.²
• Free freight to retailers — if a bookseller orders more than 15 products (from any publisher, including you) their shipping is free.
• Unlike most subsidy publisher distribution programs (who may charge you hundreds of dollars per year) your titles are returnable at no extra cost.³

Payments

When your book sells, you (the publisher) are paid based on who bought the book from our distribution partner.

Payments are made on a monthly basis on monies collected.

Use this publisher profit chart to determine the portion you will be paid based on the retail price of your book.

These are the 3 most common ways your book will sell. For a full listing, view the distribution agreement at the bottom of this page.

Requirements

• ISBN owned by you
• EAN Barcode printed on your book
  • We can add barcode stickers as your books are inventoried in the warehouse.

Costs

• Title set-up: $149 (introductory price)
• Storage: 1.5 cents per book per month
  Storage costs are deducted from your payment.
• Freight: You will be responsible for the cost of shipping your books to each of the two warehouses.
  If you print your books with BelieversPress we’ll arrange to ship your books to the warehouses for you — be sure to notify your publishing coordinator of how many books you want shipped to each warehouse.
• Inventory Withdrawals: $0.25 per book + shipping (can take up to 30 days)
  If you decide to remove some or all of your books from the warehouse for any reason that is not a sale (e.g. you need a few boxes of books to sell at an event) you’ll be charged this fee.

Reach

• STL sends out weekly digital catalog updates to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CBD, Christian Books & More, Ingram/Spring Arbor, and Lifeway. Each bookseller chooses which books they will stock/list on their sites and in their stores.
• Once your books is in stock at Ingram/Spring Arbor (which can take up to 30 days from title submission) it will become available and “in stock” at online retailers and available for order by offline retailers that order from Ingram (the vast majority of all book sellers).
• Your book will be available for sale at the BelieversPress online bookstore as soon as it’s in stock at the warehouse.

Agreement

• View the distribution agreement [PDF]

Notes

• Sales representation is not included in this program. If you’d like your book and brand to be represented to bookstores, consider purchasing sales representation.

¹ Although books are available for order by any bookstore, there is no guarantee that stores will stock a book.
² As the publisher, you are responsible for maintaining enough stock in the warehouse to fulfill orders.
³ We don’t charge you to make a book returnable, however we do charge a small restocking fee when books are returned. Books returned in unsaleable condition are donated to worthy charities or recycled.

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