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Advertising Opportunities

We offer suppliers advertising opportunities across both print and digital, at prices to suit all budgets, to market their titles. We will work closely with you to tailor any advertising to meet your requirements and complement your existing sales & marketing. Download our current Media Pack here

Gardners Select

The Gardners Select is our monthly, new titles publication produced for booksellers. The catalogue highlights forthcoming titles for one upcoming month, so booksellers can pre-order their stock

The catalogue features new title listings, publisher adverts, buyers recommends and forthcoming DVD releases. This is a favourable outlet for publishers to showcase new or backlist titles.

Make your products stand out in our comprehensive publication with the following advertising opportunities

  • Jacket Illustrations - Highlight your upcoming releases and make them stand tall within their relevant categories
  • Recommends
  • Advents - Your space to shout about your products/series/campaigns
  • Inserts - We offer the ability for you to include both loose or bound inserts within our publications

PRINT RUN: 1200 copies

REACH: : Primarily UK Independents, but also dedicated head office and international mailing list

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Downloadable as a pdf from our website for customers to access

Specialist Publications

Such as Travel, Children's, Educations, Gis and Stationery, Wellbeing

Our specialist publications are a great way to hone into key subjects. We produce several throughout the year, and these are warmly received by booksellers.

Unlike the main Select publication, these publication do not feature listings, they are composed of:

  • Publisher Advert
  • Recommended titles
  • Promotional listings
  • Entertainment
  • Cross merchandising ideas

PRINT RUN: 1200 copies

REACH: : Primarily UK Independents, but also dedicated head office and international mailing list

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Downloadable as a pdf from our website for customers to access

Digital Marketing

Gardners.com is our trade facing website, it's used by customers worldwide to manage their accounts, order stock, check availability and research products. We list in excess of 10 million books, 100,000 DVD & Blu-ray, 600,000 music lines, including vinyl, further enhanced by thousands of non-book lines.

We offer prominent advertising space on our homepage and promotions page;

  • Full width banner - Prominent homepage placement under the main headers. This can either link to a single product or a listing
  • Single Product Ad - Homepage placement of a single title, with a 100-150 word description. Links through to the product page in our site.
  • Side Banner - Homepage placement in a smaller side banner. This can either link through to a single product or as listing on our site

Top reasons publishers advertise on Gardners.com

  • Last minute additions to your publishing schedule, where you may have missed print options
  • Titles getting additional publicity, where authors may be on TV/Radio, additional events, newspaper coverage
  • Books relating to new TV or cinema releases, or re-runs on screen, including anniversaries
  • To support campaigns you are running.
  • With tens of thousands or user logging into the site daily, it is a great way to flag your titles to customers.

Book a banner slot in our weekly email to our healthily subscribed customer database. This email features key trade information, details of Gardners promotions, trade award announcements, TV tie-ins and more. Banners can then link internally to an individual product or a listing within Gardners.com.

You can book either a full or half width email banner. They are designed by you, to our specifications.

Bespoke Packages

We are increasingly working on bespoke marketing packages with our publishers and suppliers. Every supplier has their own unique budgets, time lines and requirements. Packages are a great way of planning ahead and securing premium spaces

The main benefits to an advert package is that everything is booked at the same, all deadlines can be provided at the time of booking and you'll have peace of mind knowing your campaigns and activities are covered. The more you book in, the greater discounts we can offer!

Additional Opportunities

Lorry Advertising

Why not try advertising on the side of one of the Gardners delivery trucks? These vehicles are on the road for 8+ hours a day and are a great way of advertising to consumers.

These huge graphics are unmissable on the road, and a great way to support your larger campaigns.

Social Media

Lets work together towards reaching more customers, we have an active social media presence with a sizable following just waiting to hear your:

  • New publication announcements
  • Publicity updates
  • Trade news and events
  • Additional content
  • Author relationships
  • Exclusive extracts or content
  • Anniversaries
  • Promotions
  • Competitions & give-aways
  • Book awards/award winners
  • Reviews
  • Cover reveals
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Give your list a name and then you'll have the option to fill your list with up to 999 products.