Jump to content

Midpoint Trade Books

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Wikiver23 (talk | contribs) at 20:04, 7 August 2018. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Midpoint Trade Books, Inc. is a Sales, Marketing, and Distribution Company founded by Eric M. Kampmann[1] and Chris Bell in 1996. Midpoint represents over 250 independent publishers across the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, and Ireland. Its main office is located in the Flatiron area of New York City, with satellite offices operating in Chicago, and Michigan. Midpoint's sales team presents to both national and regional big-box and specialty accounts across the United States and Canada. Fulfillment is outsourced to Ingram Content Group. Ingram's distribution facility is located in LaVergne, Tennessee where shipping, billing and return processing take place.

Parent company Kampmann & Company also owns publishing companies Spencer Hill Press and Beaufort Books.[2] Beaufort includes the imprints Moyer Bell and Papier-Mache Press. Beaufort Books famously published the O.J Simpson hypothetical tell-all book If I Did It.[3] By court order, all proceeds from and rights to the bestselling book belong to the family of murder victim Ron Goldman.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Midpoint Tries New Model". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  2. ^ "Kampmann Buys Spencer Hill Press". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2017-12-25.
  3. ^ Spavlik, Janet (May 1, 2008). "The Corner Office: He Did It". Book Business. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
  4. ^ Getlin, Josh (October 17, 2007). "Despite objections, 'If I Did It' is doing it". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 3, 2018.