PETALUMA, CA, NEW YORK, NY, & BROOKLYN, NY — (June 9, 2025) Hachette Ebook Group US Distribution and The Secure Ebook Group at present introduced the formation of Secure Distribution (stabledistribution.com), a brand new distribution firm designed to offer unbiased publishers with a strong and progressive new path to e book gross sales and logistics in North America.

Secure Distribution might be powered by a partnership between Hachette Ebook Group US Distribution, which is able to present warehousing, logistics, and success providers, and The Secure Ebook Group, which is able to lead gross sales and operations for shopper publishers. Secure Distribution will launch in North America, and function out of Hachette’s state-of-the-art Indiana warehouse.

The brand new enterprise is being constructed by a staff of seasoned business leaders, together with Chris Gruener (CEO, The Secure Ebook Group), Keith Riegert (President, The Secure Ebook Group), Brooke Warner (COO, The Secure Ebook Group), and Chitra Bopardikar (CEO, World Publishers Group).

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with Hachette Ebook Group,” stated Chris Gruener, CEO of The Secure Ebook Group. “Our objective is to open a brand new avenue for indie publishers trying to develop their companies and attain by way of distribution. The latest consolidation throughout shopper distribution has made it considerably more durable for unbiased voices to succeed in the market. Secure Distribution is our response—an operation constructed to create extra alternatives, extra discoverability, and extra assist for publishers who need to thrive on their very own phrases.”

“At Hachette we perceive and acknowledge what best-in-class distribution providers imply to publishers,” stated Russell Evans, Enterprise Improvement Director, Hachette UK Distribution and HBG US Distribution. “Underneath this mannequin we aren’t simply offering our providers to at least one unbiased writer, however to a gaggle. We efficiently delivered this answer within the UK, so to now supply this within the US, and in partnership with the amazingly gifted staff at Secure Distribution, is equally pleasing and thrilling to be a part of. We’re all delighted about this new partnership and sit up for them becoming a member of our distribution household.”

“We’ve got been in search of a accomplice that may permit us to scale and ship providers to extra publishers, whereas sustaining our market technique of focusing providers on medium to giant shoppers,” stated Todd McGarity, VP US Enterprise Improvement, Hachette Ebook Group. “This partnership with Secure Distribution will permit Hachette to proceed to distinguish itself within the US distribution market, whereas offering providers to unbiased presses who want assist now greater than ever.”

Secure Distribution will launch its first season in Spring 2026 and is at present in lively discussions with a variety of unbiased publishers searching for distribution providers. Preliminary shopper publishers will embrace Ulysses Press, Trafalgar Sq. Books, VeloPress Books, Skybox Press, Montague Books, and Mountain Gazette Books, all of which is able to transition from Simon & Schuster’s distribution to the brand new platform in January 2026. She Writes Press, The Secure’s hybrid writer run by Brooke Warner, will proceed to be distributed by Simon & Schuster.

“We’re deeply grateful for Simon & Schuster’s partnership over the previous 5 years,” stated Keith Riegert, President of The Secure Ebook Group. “Their extraordinary staff helped us develop into the corporate we’re at present. Whereas it’s bittersweet to go away such an unbelievable group, Secure Distribution is the following step on the roadmap we envisioned after we based The Secure Ebook Group—a chance to construct a distribution ecosystem actually tailor-made to the wants of unbiased publishers.”

All publishers becoming a member of Secure Distribution might be built-in by way of Good Sure, The Secure Ebook Group’s end-to-end publishing administration platform. Via Good Sure, shoppers acquire entry to a full suite of instruments together with title administration, real-time gross sales and stock monitoring, automated royalty accounting, and a world print-on-demand and offset printing market.

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About The Secure Ebook Group

The Secure Ebook Group (stablebookgroup.com) is a pioneering publishing firm devoted to revitalizing and increasing the unbiased publishing sector. By integrating superior digital advertising and marketing, expertise, print-on-demand options, and international distribution, The Secure provides unparalleled alternatives for backlist progress and frontlist innovation.

About Good Sure

Good Sure Applied sciences (perfectbound.io) is a cloud-native SaaS platform that lets publishers of any measurement run their complete enterprise from one safe dashboard. With over 200 unbiased and mid-sized publishers on the platform, Good Sure provides end-to-end title administration, ONIX and metadata distribution, real-time gross sales reporting, automated royalty accounting, and a two-sided printing market spanning 60+ printers on six continents. Good Sure eliminates guide workflows, reduces overhead, and accelerates speed-to-market—serving because the expertise spine for Secure Distribution and the broader Secure Ebook Group ecosystem.

About Hachette Ebook Group US Distribution

Hachette Ebook Group US (HBGUS) Distribution attracts collectively all order administration, fulfilment, and money assortment actions within the US for Hachette Ebook Group and its third-party shopper publishers, which symbolize roughly half of the enterprise. Companies for shopper publishers are carried out by the warehouse operations primarily based in Indiana, the Fulfilment staff primarily based in each Indiana and Boston and supported by the Credit score Management and Consumer Accounting groups primarily based in Boston.

About Hachette Ebook Group

Hachette Ebook Group (HBG) is a number one US general-interest e book writer made up of dozens of esteemed imprints throughout the publishing teams Primary Books Group; Grand Central Publishing Group; Hachette Audio; Little, Brown and Firm; Little, Brown Books for Younger Readers; Orbit; and Workman Operating Press Group. We additionally present customized distribution, success, and gross sales providers to different publishing firms. Our books and authors have obtained the Pulitzer Prize, Nationwide Ebook Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Peace Prize and different main honors. We’re dedicated to range in our firm and our publishing applications, and to fostering a tradition of inclusion for all our staff and authors. We’re proud to be a part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest commerce and academic writer. Go to hachettebookgroup.com to study extra about HBG imprints. For up to date information observe HBG on Fb, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok, X.com, Pinterest, and YouTube. 

About Pacific & Courtroom

Pacific & Courtroom is an award-winning Brooklyn-based boutique publicity and digital advertising and marketing firm specializing in selling unbiased authors and e book publishers. Collectively, the P&C staff has over 30 years of expertise publishing, selling, and advertising and marketing best-selling books. Specializing in closely examined and confirmed PR and advertising and marketing strategies, P&C will attain the precise viewers that might be receptive to your distinctive e book. Observe P&C on social media @pacificandcourt.

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