NEW YORK—“Here it is!” a Brooklyn street vender exclaimed, showing Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power to his son.

This response to Pathfinder Press’s newest title reflected the effective distribution work that had been done for the book. Buyers were waiting when sales representatives visited.

At a bookstore in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, which had been advertising the book for several weeks prior to publication, the buyer purchased seven copies on the spot.

At Nicholas Variety in Brooklyn (above), the owner will be including the book in her next order. Sales representatives in the San Francisco Bay Area also got promises for several orders. As in other cities, they will be building on this success to show the new title to other booksellers in their region and beyond.

—CANDACE WAGNER