University of Pittsburgh Press (UPP) has selected Liverpool Distribution Services (LDS) as its exclusive print distribution partner for the UK and Europe, and non-exclusive partner for the rest of the world outside of the Americas. LDS launched in September 2024 and UPP joins University of Michigan Press, University of Georgia Press, and Michigan State University Press in benefitting from a genuine sense of transatlantic university press partnership through the boutique sales, marketing, and distribution service that LDS offers. This now includes favourable group printing rates via LUP’s printing partner, CPI.

Liverpool Distribution Services sits alongside the well-established Liverpool Subscription Services, which provides journals subscriptions management for a range of university presses and mission-based publishers.

UPP Director, Peter Kracht, shared: “As the University of Pittsburgh Press expands its editorial program with new series and global authors, our approach to sales, marketing, and distribution also necessitated changes. We found an ideal partner in Liverpool Distribution Services with their depth and breadth of knowledge about the offerings of university presses.”

LUP Chief Executive, Anthony Cond, added: “There is so much to admire about the clever, subtle evolution of University of Pittsburgh Press, building on historic editorial strengths but also making astute choices for new directions in recent years. We are excited to work in partnership with Peter Kracht and his colleagues to amplify their outstanding work.”

The new agreement commences Monday 3rd November 2025, and orders will be supplied by LUP’s fulfilment partner, Wiley Distribution.

For further information please contact:

Jennie Collinson j.collinson@liverpool.ac.uk

Deborah Orgel Hudson dhudson@upress.pitt.edu

About University of Pittsburgh Press

The University of Pittsburgh Press is a publisher with distinguished lists in a wide range of scholarly and cultural fields. The University of Pittsburgh Press focuses on selected academic areas: Latin American studies, Russian and East European studies, Asian studies, African studies, composition and literacy studies, environmental studies, urban studies, the history of architecture and the built environment, and the history and philosophy of science, technology, and medicine. Our books about Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania include history, art, architecture, photography, biography, fiction, and guidebooks. Our renowned Pitt Poetry Series represents many of the finest poets active today. As the home of the internationally known Drue Heinz Literature Prize, we amplify and expand literary short fiction’s reach to new readers annually.

About Liverpool University Press

Founded in 1899 and rapidly expanding over the past two decades, Liverpool University Press has been described as ‘one of the great success stories in the difficult climate of modern academic publishing.’ LUP publishes around 200 books a year, 50 journals, and more than a dozen digital collections.