Distribution and Retail

Our model of publishing is affordable and convenient. Our paperbacks retail at around £20, our hardbacks at around £30, and our e-books at under £6, which is significantly less than most academic monographs. All of the books we publish are listed in our All Books tab and in our Catalogue available in PDF format. New publications are listed in Forthcoming Titles.

OBP titles are available to order on our website and from major retailers internationally, including Google Play, Amazon, and iTunes Store.

Our books are available on the following Open Access platforms:

Google Books
Worldreader
OpenEdition
DOAB
Europeana

Our publications can be found on the following Open Textbook platforms:

MERLOT
Open Textbook Library
College Open Textbooks (currently only hosting our textbooks, but planning to add our other publications later in the year)

Some of our titles are also available on:

Wikimedia
Wikiversity
Internet Archive
Unglue.it

OBP titles are preserved in the UK legal deposit libraries at the British Library, Portico and OpenEdition. Our Member Libraries can download a complete set of MARC records for all OBP titles.

Information for librarians and booksellers

The OBP Library Membership Programme supports our award-winning Open Access monograph publishing programme and offers a range of benefits to members. By joining the Programme for an annual fee of £300/$500/€400, libraries and their users both support and benefit from OA publishing. Find out more here and contact us at libraries@openbookpublishers.com

Our paperbacks, hardbacks and digital editions can be ordered on our website or through the following international wholesale distributors:

Barnes & Noble
Bertram Books
Blackwells
CNKI (Bejing)
Coutts
Dawson Books
EBSCO Gardners Books
Ingram Book Company
Nielsen
SWETS
YBP

Our titles are available through distributors of electronic books including:

Kobo
Dawson
Ebrary
EBSCO
JStor
StreetLib

When ordering directly from us, we offer the following discounts (please email us at orders@openbookpublishers.com if you would like to enjoy any of these offers).

For booksellers in the UK, US, EU, Canada, Australia and NZ:

10% discount and free shipping to a single address for order under £40
20% discount and free shipping to a single address for orders of £40 and over
30% discount and free shipping to a single address for orders of £150 and over

If you are a bookseller and you are not based in the UK, US, EU, Canada, Australia or NZ, please contact us at orders@openbookpublishers.com

Some of our series are available as a standing order. You can place standing orders through your usual distributor or directly with us.

All our books are printed on paper which is SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) certified. Our printers sustainability practices are available here.

We would love to hear from you. If you have any suggestions on how we can best serve librarians and booksellers please contact us at orders@openbookpublishers.com