Toronto/Palm Beach (June 2023) – Castle Quay Books is pleased to announce their new partnership agreement with international book distributor Anchor/Word Alive Distribution who will now provide sales, marketing and distribution services for their entire book line in the United States and Canada.
Anchor Distributors, located in New Kensington, Pennsylvania and their Canadian subsidiary arm Word Alive Inc. in Winnipeg, Manitoba, are a top distributor of Christian books and products to Christian markets, including retailers, online sellers, and churches.
“We are pleased to be working with Anchor/Word Alive Distribution in both the USA and Canada,” said Larry Willard, founder and CEO of Castle Quay Books. “We were looking for a prominent, reliable, quality provider of sales and distribution services for our imprint and we feel we have found it with Anchor/Word Alive.”
Jeremy Braun, managing director for Word Alive said, “We look forward to serving the customers of Castle Quay Books in Canada and are pleased to offer our strong network of retail and trade connections to allow us to meet the needs of the entire community.”
With the closing of Parasource Marketing and Distribution of Paris, Ontario, this past month, Castle Quay Books searched for the best possible replacement partner to work with. Greg Tombs, past President of Parasource noted that they had not experienced the hoped-for rebound after the pandemic, and combined with the continued decline in CBA Bookstore numbers, they were not able to continue their operation.
“We are glad to partner with Castle Quay Books to meet their distribution and fulfillment needs in North America,” said Karen Fulton, Director of Operations for Anchor Distributors. “Our location just south of the Canadian border coupled with a well-developed supply chain provides an excellent solution for Castle Quay Books to continue bringing their excellent message to the North American reader.
Castle Quay Books, is an imprint of Castle Quay Communications, and was founded in 2002 as an independent Canadian publishing imprint, dedicated to the advancement of the Canadian and American writing community with the purpose of developing and publishing high value, quality titles, by both established and new authors. Their mission is to find and promote quality messages that inform, challenge, inspire and uplift readers.
The initial focus of Castle Quay Books was on Christian subjects, but they now publish over 20 categories, including biographies, business, children’s stories, finance, family, gift books, inspiration, history, leadership, memoirs, non-fiction, popular culture issues, political issues, social justice issues, spiritual, teaching/self-help, teen, theological, women’s focus, leadership, all selected because of their high moral content and balanced quality message on a wide variety of subjects. Today their titles are available to readers world-wide in over 29 countries in hard copy, audio books and e-book formats.
Castle Quay Books (CQB) titles have been nominated for over 115 publishing awards by various groups in Canada, the UK and the USA and have won more than 61 top awards from those nominations.
Visit the Castle Quay Books website at www.castlequaybooks.com
For more information on this agreement or other topics contact:
- In Canada: Word Alive Customer Care, Ph. 800-665-1468, Email: orderdesk@wordalive.ca
- In USA: Anchor Distribution Dept., Ph. 800-444-4484, Email: distribution@Anchordistributors.com
- Larry N Willard, Castle Quay Books Publisher, lwillard@castlequaybooks.com
