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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.


Our customers include booksellers, wholesalers, institutions and members of the public.


We are approved by Lloyd’s Register of Quality Assurance to ISO 9001:2000 standard and won the Waterstone's award for Distributor of the Year 2005.  We were accredited as an E4Books distributor in 2005 and were recently re-accredited.  We were delighted to oversee the distribution of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows in July 2007, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in June 2003 as well as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in July 2005, all of them the fastest selling books of their time!
  In fact, we distribute seven of the thirteen titles to be awarded the Nielsen BookScan Platinum award for selling over one million copies, the other titles being 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.