A good example of this was when Curt Matthews, CEO of Independent Publishers Group (IPG), took on a promising single title, “The Covenant with Black America,” in 2006 from Chicago-based Third World Press, stocked the bookstores in three weeks and, over a period of three months, had shipped 300,000 copies (Publishers Weekly, Feb. 19, 2007).
Piecing Together the Distribution Puzzle
A good example of this was when Curt Matthews, CEO of Independent Publishers Group (IPG), took on a promising single title, “The Covenant with Black America,” in 2006 from Chicago-based Third World Press, stocked the bookstores in three weeks and, over a period of three months, had shipped 300,000 copies (Publishers Weekly, Feb. 19, 2007).