Friday, May 09, 2008
Did You Know...
 

Gumdrop BooksTM a family owned business, has been blessed with over 30 years in the educational field. We believe that the true credit for our continued growth is our customer service guiding principle. We deliver Exceptional Service, Unconditionally Guaranteed.

Our collection represents over 80 publishers with 3 million PreK-College level books in stock. Our fulfillment rate exceeds 96%. Your order will be received promptly within 10-15 business days. Gumdrop provides friendly, personalized, one-on-one ordering. Our sales professional makes an appointment with you, at your convenience, to personalize our services to meet your library's needs. The representative will present book samples so you can inspect the quality of our bindings, paper, illustrations, and print.

When you contact us, you will never be trapped in a perpetual phone-answering system. Real people cheerfully answer our phones. Our professional customer service department is empowered to handle virtually any problem on the first call. With Gumdrop, one call does it all.

Personalized One-On-One Ordering Our pricing includes FREE MARC records and FREE shipping within the USA and Canada. Superior full service cataloging, from barcodes to spine labels to shelf-ready processing, and even AR tests are available with the simplicity of one purchase order. We offer discounts up to 70% off the publisher’s list price. Gumdrop will defer billing up to twelve months with our Flexible Payment Terms.

We offer quality bindings which are virtually all library bound and the latest copyrights including a large selection of Accelerated Reader®, Reading Counts®, and Lexile® titles. We have added over 2,000 fiction titles to our collection. Plus Gumdrop BooksTM is the exclusive distributor of many high-quality publishers.

Online ordering is available. BookMarcItTM, our online ordering system, is an invaluable, easy-to-use tool that you will find irresistible. Whether you search by Dewey, Accelerated Reader®, Reading Counts®, age level, or any mixture thereof, our offerings are only a keystroke away.

In addition, Gumdrop BooksTM has created a new division for curriculum. Gumdrop Professional Resource Center (www.gumdrop-prc.com) is designed to meet the needs of classroom teachers including customized classroom libraries, supplemental curriculum materials, teacher resources, early childhood resources, assessment and test preparation materials, professional development materials and our all new Mega Bags™ designed to engage hard-to-reach learners.

Mitinet Library Solutions logo To further enhance your library, award winning MARC record software and services are available thru our sister company, Mitinet, Inc. (www.mitinet.com). Mitinet’s superior MARC record services allow Gumdrop to provide to you with library services second-to-none. Gumdrop is powered by MitinetTM.

Gumdrop BooksTM is your one-stop shop and we’re here to serve you. The Fitzgerald family and all of our outstanding team members appreciate your business. We strive to do our very best for you…we make this promise: Exceptional Service, Unconditionally Guaranteed.


Harold Fitzgerald
President