Can you tell me about USA / UK / Europe / Australia / New Zealand / Japan DISTRIBUTORS in 2016?

Haha! I'm with you entirely, Fastnbulbous . . . all vinyl will come with a download code which includes the ability to do lossless files. But in most cases, there will be a CD version too, unless licensing restrictions prevent it or if it's a 7" or 10" and it doesn't make sense to do a CD (in all those cases though, you'll still get a download code.) After a brief period for selling, most everything will be available as a pure download too, including lossless. It drives me crazy when labels don't do this.

We realise that 70% or whatever it is, of sales now happen online, but we'd still like to get in better shops, so we would like to access the common wisdom surrounding distributors. If you're the sort of person who likes Fast Product or Postcard or Rough Trade, you'll recognise many of the names on the label.