Hachette Book Group and The Stable Book Group Announce New Distribution Venture for Independent Publishers

PETALUMA, CA, NEW YORK, NY, & BROOKLYN, NY — (June 9, 2025) Hachette Book Group US Distribution and The Stable Book Group today announced the formation of Stable Distribution (stabledistribution.com), a new distribution company designed to provide independent publishers with a powerful and innovative new path to book sales and logistics in North America.

Stable Distribution will be powered by a partnership between Hachette Book Group US Distribution, which will provide warehousing, logistics, and fulfillment services, and The Stable Book Group, which will lead sales and operations for client publishers. Stable Distribution will launch in North America, and operate out of Hachette’s state-of-the-art Indiana warehouse.

The new venture is being built by a team of seasoned industry leaders, including Chris Gruener (CEO, The Stable Book Group), Keith Riegert (President, The Stable Book Group), Brooke Warner (COO, The Stable Book Group), and Chitra Bopardikar (CEO, Global Publishers Group).

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Hachette Book Group,” said Chris Gruener, CEO of The Stable Book Group. “Our goal is to open a new avenue for indie publishers looking to grow their businesses and reach through distribution. The recent consolidation across client distribution has made it significantly harder for independent voices to reach the market. Stable Distribution is our response—an operation built to create more opportunities, more discoverability, and more support for publishers who want to thrive on their own terms.”

“At Hachette we understand and recognize what best-in-class distribution services mean to publishers,” said Russell Evans, Business Development Director, Hachette UK Distribution and HBG US Distribution. “Under this model we are not just providing our services to one independent publisher, but to a group. We successfully delivered this solution in the UK, so to now offer this in the US, and in partnership with the amazingly talented team at Stable Distribution, is equally pleasing and exciting to be part of. We are all delighted about this new partnership and look forward to them joining our distribution family.”

“We have been looking for a partner that will allow us to scale and deliver services to more publishers, while maintaining our market strategy of focusing services on medium to large clients,” said Todd McGarity, VP US Business Development, Hachette Book Group. “This partnership with Stable Distribution will allow Hachette to continue to differentiate itself in the US distribution market, while providing services to independent presses who need support now more than ever.”

Stable Distribution will launch its first season in Spring 2026 and is currently in active discussions with a range of independent publishers seeking distribution services. Initial client publishers will include Ulysses Press, Trafalgar Square Books, VeloPress Books, Skybox Press, Montague Books, and Mountain Gazette Books, all of which will transition from Simon & Schuster’s distribution to the new platform in January 2026. She Writes Press, The Stable’s hybrid publisher run by Brooke Warner, will continue to be distributed by Simon & Schuster.

“We are deeply grateful for Simon & Schuster’s partnership over the past five years,” said Keith Riegert, President of The Stable Book Group. “Their extraordinary team helped us grow into the company we are today. While it’s bittersweet to leave such an incredible organization, Stable Distribution is the next step on the roadmap we envisioned when we founded The Stable Book Group—an opportunity to build a distribution ecosystem truly tailored to the needs of independent publishers.”

All publishers joining Stable Distribution will be integrated via Perfect Bound, The Stable Book Group’s end-to-end publishing management platform. Through Perfect Bound, clients gain access to a full suite of tools including title management, real-time sales and inventory tracking, automated royalty accounting, and a global print-on-demand and offset printing marketplace.

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About The Stable Book Group

The Stable Book Group (stablebookgroup.com) is a pioneering publishing company dedicated to revitalizing and expanding the independent publishing sector. By integrating advanced digital marketing, technology, print-on-demand solutions, and global distribution, The Stable offers unparalleled opportunities for backlist growth and frontlist innovation.

About Perfect Bound

Perfect Bound Technologies (perfectbound.io) is a cloud-native SaaS platform that lets publishers of any size run their entire business from one secure dashboard. With over 200 independent and mid-sized publishers on the platform, Perfect Bound offers end-to-end title management, ONIX and metadata distribution, real-time sales reporting, automated royalty accounting, and a two-sided printing marketplace spanning 60+ printers on six continents. Perfect Bound eliminates manual workflows, reduces overhead, and accelerates speed-to-market—serving as the technology backbone for Stable Distribution and the broader Stable Book Group ecosystem.

About Hachette Book Group US Distribution

Hachette Book Group US (HBGUS) Distribution draws together all order management, fulfilment, and cash collection activities in the US for Hachette Book Group and its third-party client publishers, which represent roughly half of the business. Services for client publishers are performed by the warehouse operations based in Indiana, the Fulfilment team based in both Indiana and Boston and supported by the Credit Control and Client Accounting teams based in Boston.

About Hachette Book Group

Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading US general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group; Grand Central Publishing Group; Hachette Audio; Little, Brown and Company; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Orbit; and Workman Running Press Group. We also provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to other publishing companies. Our books and authors have received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Peace Prize and other major honors. We are committed to diversity in our company and our publishing programs, and to fostering a culture of inclusion for all our employees and authors. We are proud to be part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest trade and educational publisher. Visit hachettebookgroup.com to learn more about HBG imprints. For updated news follow HBG on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok, X.com, Pinterest, and YouTube. 

About Pacific & Court

Pacific & Court is an award-winning Brooklyn-based boutique publicity and digital marketing company specializing in promoting independent authors and book publishers. Together, the P&C team has over 30 years of experience publishing, promoting, and marketing best-selling books. Focusing on heavily tested and proven PR and marketing methods, P&C will reach the exact audience that will be receptive to your unique book. Follow P&C on social media @pacificandcourt.

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