UK SALES

DARK SATANIC MILLS

In February of last year this blog announced that we now had a US distributor for Himalayan Portfolios. Independent Publishers Group (IPG), acts as the channel between the publisher on the one had and book sellers on the other. It warehouses the book, handles orders and billing, and arranges speedy delivery. Unfortunately, it has no warehousing in the UK. Purchases from the UK included the enormous extra cost of shipping from the US. (The standard postage is about $45.)

We now have a UK distributor
Gazelle Books
This organization warehouses the book in the UK, promotes the book in its catalog and arranges sales to book stores. It does not, however, sell directly to the public. The list price is given as $70.99, but this is substantially discounted by some booksellers such as Amazon.co.uk. To check out Gazelle, regular book stores or on-line book sellers the easiest way is to use the 13 digit ISBN number without hyphens in the sellers search engine:
9780979059704
(The first four numbers 978-0 are standard for English group books, the last number is a modulus check, the center 8 digits, 97905970, specify the publisher and the book.)

By a curious coincidence, Gazelle Book Services is located in White Cross Mill, Lancaster. At some point long ago, when I was in high school in Lancaster and the mill was still a textile mill, I visited the mill searching for a summer job. I found work in the lab at another and less ancient institution. The cotton mills inevitably bring to mind the lines of Blake’s lyric from the long poem Milton:

And was Jerusalem builded here,

Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Lancaster may get a reprieve. The satanic mills Blake had in mind may have been Oxford and Cambridge.