This may be the year of the eBook tablet, but Random House doesn’t want shoppers to forget about physical books in physical stores. To prove its loyalty to booksellers, the publisher is running a special promotion this holiday season to make sure that is books are in bookstores quickly.
“2-Day Transit,” lets indie booksellers order books for their stores with two-day shipping throughout the holiday season. It will work for any Random House title, be it frontlist or backlist.
The publisher explained how it will work in a press release: Orders received in our system by 3:00 p.m. EST will leave the warehouse no later than the next business day, and ship door-to-door in two days or less from the company’s Westminster and Crawfordsville distribution centers to independent booksellers throughout the country.” The effort runs from now through January 12th.