Last March, the indie press world was rocked by the abrupt closure of Small Press Distribution, which had operated since 1969 and represented about 300 client publishers. The company cited declining sales and loss of grant support as the reasons for the shuttering. Its 300,000-book inventory was transferred to Ingram Content Group, and many presses were left in a bind, without a distributor or access to inventory data, and in some cases had to pay to have their stock returned to them. Since the closure, indie presses have regrouped, finding alternate distribution solutions. Some have been made deals with Ingram …