Perfect Bound is a company that helps match small publishers with printers to create faster and cheaper printing runs. Now, in a partnership with Simon & Schuster, Perfect Bound will offer distribution for independent publishers, with S&S providing sales, warehousing, fulfillment, and billing services. Publishers already using Perfect Bound can apply for distribution services. Learn more about the terms (some of which are plainly stated on the website—a rarity!). Likely this is yet another positive and opportunistic response following the abrupt closure of Small Press Distribution earlier this year.
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
Jane’s expertise regularly features in major media outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, The Today Show, Wired, The Guardian, Fox News, and BBC. Her book, The Business of Being a Writer, Second Edition (The University of Chicago Press), is used as a classroom text by many writing and publishing degree programs. She reaches thousands through speaking engagements and workshops at diverse venues worldwide, including NYU’s Advanced Publishing Institute, Frankfurt Book Fair, and numerous MFA programs.
