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Sandstone Press is “back up and running” after Vertebrate Publishing acquired the stock and IP of the Scottish indie, Vertebrate m.d. Jon Barton has confirmed.
A tweet posted from Sandstone’s account on 14th August said: “We’re back up and running. Orders out to Waterstones. All books in the warehouse. Marketing team contacting authors and putting plans in place. Wholesalers all informed, we are even resuming printing. Books for sale on the updated site.”
Barton said that the former publisher will be operating as an imprint of Vertebrate and negotiations with authors have been completed. “We’ve got all the stock into a new warehouse, so Waterstones are ordering books again," he confirmed.
The Bookseller recently reported that the company went into voluntary liquidation due to difficult trading conditions and previous attempts to sell the company, which had been unsuccessful. Climbing book publisher Vertebrate took over management of 230 titles on Sandstone’s list.
The managing director said the process has been more difficult than expected so far, as Vertebrate realised Sandstone’s old distribution model was not going to work in terms of book sales. “Going forward, we haven’t got a strategy for new titles,” he said.
However, two of Sandstone’s climbing books—the paperback of Brian Hall’s High Risk and a new edition of John Allen’s Cairngorm John—are going to print this week. Meanwhile, another climbing book, Out of Mind by Joe French, will be published by Vertebrate’s Sandstone imprint in September.
“We’re carrying on commitments that Sandstone made to authors,” Barton said, “we’re trying to to honour those and move forward".