Country of origin United States Acquisition date 1987 | Founded 1971 Parent organization Chicago Review Press | |
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Headquarters location Chicago, Illinois, United States Profiles | ||
Independent Publishers Group, or 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 publishers. They are based in Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Review Press
In 1987, IPG was acquired by Chicago Review Press (CRP) an independent publisher founded at about the same time as IPG.
Distribution Services
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 under their IPG Academic and Professional Publishing division.
In 2006, IPG acquired Trafalgar Square Publishing, founded in 1973. This division is the distributor of more than 100 publishers located in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and more. Through these publishers, TSP representing upwards of 5,000 titles each Spring and Fall season. Their roster includes the UK imprints of Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Bonnier Zaffre, as well as the Australian publishers Penguin Random House and Allen & Unwin, whose titles are not always issued US editions.