Fulfillment services cost money, but they save you time. Even using a fulfillment service, you will usually make more money on your books than by sending your readers to buy at Amazon or Barnes and Noble. When you find a fulfillment service that you trust, your job is to keep them supplied with books and collect the mail with your monthly sales check.

Fulfillment services vary widely in cost and quality. One service charges a flat fee of 35% for fulfillment. Other services charge less than three dollars per book. Book storage fees, administration fees, and return policies vary between companies. Some fulfillment services are associated with specific printers, eliminating shipping costs from the printer to the shipping warehouse. Some services are better for small quantities, others for large volume.

Below are some companies that offer fulfillment services. We include them as a way to start your research. A web search will locate many more resources. American Author makes no recommendations about the quality of these services.

• QP Distribution, associated with Central Plains Book Manufacturing, Kansas: toll free numbers 1-888-281-5170
• Bookmasters, also does in-house printing: toll-free numbers, online store, distribution services with Ingram and Baker and Taylor available. Visit their website.
• EFulfillment Services, Michigan. general fulfillment service. Features a low per item charge, but a $78 dollar per month base fee. Visit their website.
• Phenix and Phenix, Literary Publicists: Visit their website.
• Beaver's Pond Press: Minnesota. Fulfillment services included as part of printing agreement. Visit their website.
• BCH Fulfillment Services Visit their website.

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