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Order directly. Help sustain independent publishing.

Like most small press indy publishers, all Bridge Books titles can be ordered through the nationwide Ingram ordering system. However, independent publishing needs an economics that supports both the bookseller and the press. For small nonprofit publishers like Bridge, a 40–45% wholesale discount treated as a condition of stocking a book can make that work unsustainable. Printing, applicable taxes, and shipping still have to be paid, often leaving little or nothing to support authors, editorial work, or the next publication (or worse, we owe fees to Ingram!).

Independent bookstores rightly encourage readers to buy directly from them instead of Amazon. We invite booksellers to extend that same principle to independent publishers. Insisting on discounts that a small press cannot absorb can reproduce the economic pressures that buying independently is meant to address. We recognize that bookstores also operate on tight margins; direct purchasing gives us an opportunity to work together on terms grounded in our actual costs.