Independent Publishers Group

Independent Publishers Group
Founded 1971
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Chicago, Illinois
Official website www.ipgbook.com

Independent Publishers Group (IPG) is a U.S. book distributor, founded in 1971 to exclusively market titles from independent client publishers to the international book trade. As per other book wholesalers and distributors, IPG combines its client publishers’ books into a single list, comparable to the larger publishing houses. IPG’s distribution services to publishers include warehousing, bill collecting, and sales to the book trade. IPG currently represents about 1,000[1] publishers. They are based in Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago Review Press

In 1987, IPG was acquired by Chicago Review Press (CRP) an independent publisher founded at about the same time as IPG.

Other publishers

IPG distributes publishers based in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Ireland, Switzerland, New Zealand, Israel, and others.

IPG acquired Paul & Company, an 11-year-old distributor of university presses, in 2001. IPG now sells directly to universities.

In 2006, IPG acquired Trafalgar Square Publishing, founded in 1973, which is the distributor of more than 100 publishers from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Germany, representing more than 20,000 titles. Its roster includes HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, and Penguin Random House from the UK and Allen and Unwin and Penguin Random House from Australia; these publisher's titles are not always issued in US editions.

In 2018, IPG acquired International Specialized Book Services (ISBS), an academic book distributor.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ipgbook.com/publishers-pages-32.php
  2. ↑ "IPG Acquires ISBS". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-07-08.
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