Gardners Books is the largest book

Book

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 wholesaler in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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. Based in Eastbourne

Eastbourne

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, East Sussex

East Sussex

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, Gardners supplies books to a number of British retailers including Waterstone's

Waterstone's

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, Tesco.com

Tesco.com

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 Books, TheHut.com, The Book Depository

The Book Depository

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, Play.com

Play.com

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 and WHSmith. They have a stock catalogue of over 850,000 titles from over 4,000 publishers, with around 400,000 in stock at any one time.

Gardners provide an automated telephone enquiry line known as GardCall which gives availability of a book from an ISBN. Gardners also provide support for EPOS

Point of sale

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ordering systems.

In October 2008, Gardners moved into the DVD market and in 2010 moved into the CD market.