Distribution and Wholesale
If you are interested in receiving our yearly publisher catalogue, sign up on our home page or straight on the form and we will email you a copy once available. This lists our available and upcoming books, catalogues, and distributors.
Booksellers: Buying our paperbacks
Go straight to our Wholesale Form or contact us for a wholesale discount code you can use in our online bookshop. Wholesale terms are at the bottom of this page.
Bitten Fruit Books is listed as a publisher with Nielsens. Most of our titles are listed in Ingram Content Group's catalogue or Gardners (usually their extended catalogue). We (Bitten Fruit Books) also act as wholesaler for our books, but when we are listed as distributors, we receive your orders through Pubeasy's Teleordering service which means booksellers around the world can order our paperbacks directly from us for their customers. Our eBooks - see below - are also listed with Gardners through Draft2Digital. Please ask us for our publisher catalogue to see our full listing and details.
We offer two options for ordering from us:
- If ordering straight through your usual online catalogue (Gardners, Ingram Content Group, etc) your discount will be anything between 15% to 40% with no returns, depending on which distribution service we are using for that title. The low discount is fine for ordering just one or two of our books to trial.
- If you set up a wholesale account directly with us, we will always discount at 45% and although we try to discourage returns, we will consider them on a case-by-case basis. We also take on some consignment agreements. We do recommend working directly with us if you are going to stock our books on a regular basis. We will also do everything we can to help you sell our books, from sending you promotional items like bookmarks, to holding author talks and signings whether in person or online - contact us any time about arranging this.
For booksellers based around South Hampshire (U.K.) we can arrange a book rep (or Dianna Hardy) to come and talk to you about the books, writing style, story arcs, and the readers they will appeal to.
Booksellers, distributors, and publishing data services can ask for a link to our B2B website where they will find A.I. sheets and full details of our upcoming publications.
All distribution and wholesale queries can be emailed directly to info@bittenfruitbooks.com
CIP Records for our books are available from the British Library.
eBooks
We distribute our eBooks directly to a few retail platforms, and we also distribute through Draft2Digital. Our eBooks are listed at Gardners and you can currently find all of our titles available across all permitted Amazon (Kindle) stores, Google Play, Kobo, and Apple. You will find most or some of our titles on Nook, Fable, Bookshop.org, etc. Retailers may be selective in which of our titles they choose to sell. We fight to have ALL of our titles shown, but sometimes, this is beyond our control. Most large eBooks retailers have eReader Apps that allow you to read their books on your PC, Macbook, or phone, so you should be able to read any of our titles with little effort, even if your chosen platform does not sell the one you want.
Wholesale Terms (for print books)
Terms: Our wholesale prices are set at 45% off the list price. There is a minimum order requirement of two books. If you place your order via our form, we'll email you to confirm it with an invoice attached. Upon payment, your books will be sent to you as soon as possible, usually from our printers based in or nearest to your country. Payment via this website is in GBP and invoices are also sent in GBP. All major credit and debit cards are accepted; PayPal is accepted, and bank transfer is also an option. If you are abroad, use an online currency converter to see the total of your order before any bank conversion fees. If you wish to set up a consignment agreement with us (rather than wholesale), please email us. We consider each request, but do have a limit due to cost.
For signed copies of any of our books, email your request through to info@bittenfruitbooks.com AFTER you place your order, and state which books are supposed to be signed (signature only). We do not charge extra to booksellers for signed books.
Delivery: Books may come in separate packages and are always sent tracked. We charge a flat fee of £3.95 for UK customers (free over £25), and £12 for international customers (free over £75), per order. Bookmarks and swag are always sent from the United Kingdom at no additional cost with your order. Please allow up to three weeks for your order to reach you. If any books arrive damaged or misprinted, please contact us ASAP with photos.
Returns: We generally do not accept returns - that is why we have a very low minimum order requirement - but we will consider each request for returns separately.
We may contact you if needed information is in your order. We reserve the right to refuse any order (you will be refunded if we do). Placing an order means you accept the terms and delivery policies above.
Contact details: If you need to contact us, speak to Dianna Hardy at info@bittenfruitbooks.com