About Us

WBDS‘s seasoned team knows how to place the right books in the right stores at the right time.

—Ron Davis, VP, Special & International Markets, Digital & Gift, Sterling Publishing

About WBDS

Overview

Your success is our bottom line

Let our proprietary software system work for you—testing titles, minimizing returns and building your business.

West Broadway Distribution Services, LLC (WBDS) supplies specialty retailers with a comprehensive and well-managed book inventory.

WBDS’s innovative software system uniquely enables us to test titles, to maximize title rotation, to minimize returns and to produce the greatest yield per square foot, delivering more sales for you.

Get Growing…

West Broadway Distribution Services’s (WBDS) exclusive software system empowers us with the unique capability to maximize your sales:

1. By processing consumer feedback nightly, and 2. By maintaining fresh and exciting book sections that continuously offer new product choices through on-going, seamless inventory rotation.

WBDS operates solely on a Scan Based Trading model.

WBDS:

  • • Tests all titles appropriate to the market.
  • • Ensures titles hit the marketplace hot off the press.
  • • Tailors stocking levels by title by store based on the buying trends in each store.
  • • Automatically replaces titles, as they begin to decline in performance, with proven top performers.
  • • Manages central book departments in addition to multiple in-line/cross-merchandised plan-o-gram sections.