Sales Services for Publishers

The GBD Sales Force: Putting Your Products on the Shelf

Selling is a special skill, and selling books requires a unique understanding of a distinct—and constantly changing—market. The GBD sales force has years of experience and has honed this hands-on experience to gain access to the major retailers, wholesalers, online retailers and independent book and gift stores and to secure prime shelf space for our clients' books. Noted for their conscientious attention to detail, our reps have earned the professional respect of the accounts they call on and the publishers they represent. The GBD sales organization has virtually unmatched credentials in the book business and a reputation for generating solid sales.

National Accounts and Mass Merchandizers

Amy Alexander

Special Markets Accounts Manager

aalexander@globalbookdistribution.com

Amy Alexander is a Special Markets Accounts Manager at GBD, covering catalogers, specialty wholesalers, non-traditional retailers, and much more. Amy has over fifteen years of bookselling experience ranging from managing the International Center of Photography’s bookstore to special sales at Watson-Guptill Publications and Global Book Press.

Ed Lyons

National Accounts Manager

elyons@globalbookdistribution.com

Ed Lyons manages sales and marketing efforts to national trade and library wholesalers Baker & Taylor, Bookazine, and Brodart. He also represents GBD to mass merchants and their suppliers including COSTCO, BJ's Wholesale Club, Target, Kroger, Safeway, Wegmans, Hudson Booksellers, American West , Readerlink, and the Hudson Group. Ed has over twenty-five years of book publishing experience including work for Penguin, the commission sales group Proe & Proe Associates, and an independent book store.

Max Phelps

Director of Outdoor Sales

mphelps@globalbookdistribution.com

Max Phelps manages GBD’s relationship with American Wholesale Book Company/Books-a-Million, and is Director of Outdoor sales where he works directly with many key outdoor customers including several National Parks, Orvis, LL Bean, Bass Pro, REI, and the Boy Scouts of America. Prior to GBD, Max was a bookseller in Philadelphia, worked in book distribution in the eastern United States, and managed sales and marketing for Falcon Publishing.