Bookpeople (distributor)

Bookpeople
Company typeDistributor
Industrybookselling
FounderDon Gerrard
Defunct2004
FateBankruptcy
Headquarters7900 Edgewater Drive,
Berkeley, Oakland
,
United States
Area served
worldwide
Key people
Gene Taback, President[1]
OwnerBookpeople Employees Association

Bookpeople was an employee-owned and operated book wholesaler and distributor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It operated from 1969-2003.[2] Bookpeople was one of the major forces behind the renaissance of independent publishing that occurred during this period.[3] The business provided a wide range of hard-to-find titles to bookstores throughout the U.S. and the world.[4] It also played a major role in the development of New Age[5] and radical political publishing and bookselling.[6] It was not related to The Book People, a U.K. publishing concern, or BookPeople, an Austin, Texas bookstore.[7]

  1. ^ Adams, Frank T.; Hansen, Gary B. (1992). Putting Democracy to Work: A Practical Guide for Starting and Managing Worker-owned Businesses. ISBN 9781881052098.
  2. ^ "Banyen's History". www.banyen.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
  3. ^ Collier, Peter (1972-02-13). "For Fun and Profit in San Francisco". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  4. ^ Adams, Frank T.; Gary B. Hansen (1993). "Foreword by Obne TaBack". Putting democracy to work. Berrett-Koehler. p. XV. ISBN 1-881052-09-5. Retrieved 2009-04-17. bookpeople berkeley.
  5. ^ Lilly, John Cunningham (2004). Programming the human biocomputer. Ronin Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 1-57951-065-5. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
  6. ^ Ross, Tim (2002). The complete guide to self-publishing. Writer's Digest Books. p. 315. ISBN 1-58297-091-2. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
  7. ^ Cassy, John (2002-06-26). "Book People in best-selling US deal". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2009-04-17.