Midpoint Trade Books, Inc. is a

Sales Sales are activities related to selling or the number of goods sold in a given targeted time period. The delivery of a service for a cost is also considered a sale. A period during which goods are sold for a reduced price may also be referred ...

Marketing Marketing is the act of acquiring, satisfying and retaining customers. It is one of the primary components of Business administration, business management and commerce. Marketing is usually conducted by the seller, typically a retailer or ma ...

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Distribution Distribution may refer to: Mathematics *Distribution (mathematics), generalized functions used to formulate solutions of partial differential equations *Probability distribution, the probability of a particular value or value range of a varia ...

Company founded by Eric M. Kampmann and Chris Bell in 1996. Midpoint represents over 250 independent

publishers Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

across the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Australia, and Ireland. Midpoint's sales team presents to both national and regional big-box and specialty accounts across the United States and Canada. Kampmann & Company also owns publishing companies Spencer Hill Press and Beaufort Books. 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 ''If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer'' is a book by O. J. Simpson, in which he puts forth a hypothetical description of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. According to ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves, the book is based on exten ...

. By court order, all proceeds from and rights to the bestselling book belong to the family of murder victim

Ron Goldman Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was an American restaurant waiter and aspiring actor. A volunteer working with children suffering from cerebral palsy, Goldman appeared as a contestant on the short-lived game show '' Studs' ...

Acquisition by IPG

On August 17, 2018, Midpoint Trade Books was sold to

Independent Publishers Group Independent Publishers Group (IPG) is a worldwide distributor for independent general, academic, and professional publishers, founded in 1971 to exclusively market titles from independent client publishers to the international book trade. As p ...

(IPG). About the acquisition, IPG's CEO, Joe Matthews said that the publishing industry "is consolidating because distribution rewards scale, requires expensive technology, and demands high-level access to customers."{{cite web, work=Shelf Awareness , title=IPG Buys Midpoint Trade Books, date=2018-09-04, url=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3326 , accessdate=2018-11-15

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