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A fact from Bookpeople (distributor) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 April 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Bookpeople was an employee-owned book distributor that helped revolutionize independent publishing and bookselling?

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If this article needs a more precise wikiproject category, may i suggest Category:WikiProject Cooperatives? (im very new to wikiprojects, so im not going to do more than suggest)Mercurywoodrose (talk) 16:38, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not a cooperative

Bookpeople was never a cooperative. We were an employee owned corporation. I believe folks in cooperatives would agree that while they may look similar to those on the outside, the structures and governance, are wildly different. 23:21, 16 February 2012 128.32.28.211

You are correct, of course. the project connection is not part of the article, though, so it doesnt HAVE to be removed. We were, however, closely tied to the cooperative networks, and operated with some cooperative elements, often more than mainstream employee owned companies do. too bad no one has bothered to write a history of the company. this is all i could glean from sources online.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:27, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you remember we had a sort of love/hate relationship with NoBAWC. They liked having meetings at our place but some of the group members wanted us not included or for Bookpeople to have some special status to indicate us as not of the same ilk. Personally I don't really care and didn't see what all the fuss was about then. I thought 'different path to arrive at the same place' sort of thing, but others not so much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.183.27.115 (talk) 23:57, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Book selling chain clarification

I'm not sure how to phrase this so I thought I'd start here on the talk page. In the time Bookpeople was operating there were three main ways a published book got from publisher to bookstore. At our height we had an operation covering each of these three ways.

Bookpeople -Wholesale- Wholesaling is a non-exclusive arrangement between wholesaler and publisher, limited marketing and other support, although our limited support was pretty damn good. Additional marketing and other events on a fee basis.

Words Distributing Company -Distribution- Exclusive contract, in 2001 we carried, represented and marketed the entire lines of 35 publishers including my fav Ugly Town.

Bookpeople Fulfillment Division (AKA BFD) -Fulfillment- just what it sounds, warehousing, lick & stick shipping of a publishers books. At the time we were the only ones to specialize in books only and the quality of our service was extremely high.

Please See: https://www.clmp.org/about/newswire_archive_01_17.html BOOKPEOPLE CELEBRATES 30TH YEAR WITH CUSTOMER INCENTIVES

Of course all this changed with the rise of internet but IMHO more damaging was the undercutting of wholesalers by the trade presses.

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