The Sova, founded 1971, is a book distributor distributing books from 70 left or socialist publishers (among them Dietz) to 4000 booksellers in Germany. Due to a decrease in profit last year and one publisher's failure to pay, they are in turn unable to pay the publishers they're distributing. One source says it's a total of 300 000 € that is outstanding to the publishers. It is likely that the publishers will now need to look for new distributors, which is no easy process and will probably cause them further losses.