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Macmillan Distribution is a UK based book distributor who handles over forty publishers, including the Macmillan Group publishers.

We distribute throughout the UK and the rest of the world and our customers include booksellers, wholesalers, institutions and members of the public.


We are approved by Lloyd’s Register of Quality Assurance to ISO 9001:2008 standard and have been accredited under the Supply Chain Excellence Award scheme.

We were delighted to oversee the distribution of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows in July 2007, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in July 2005 and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in June 2003: all of them the fastest selling books of their time!  In fact, we distribute several of the titles to be awarded the Nielsen BookScan Platinum award for selling over one million copies, the other titles being The Kite Runner, The Lovely Bones, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban.

If you are a customer who has an account with us check out our Customer Services and Latest details.


If you are interested in finding out more about the books we distribute you will find information about both our Macmillan publishers and our client publishers.  You can use the order form to place an order.


If you are looking for a publisher for your manuscript or if you are a publisher looking for a distributor see our publisher FAQs.  Otherwise you can learn more about MDL and the job opportunities we have.

Macmillan Distribution is a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under Company Number: 785998 with its registered office at Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hants, RG21 6XS, United Kingdom.