Bob Carrier, former head of the rep group the Book Carrier and founder and first president of the National Association of Independent Publishers Representatives, died last Monday, November 7. He was 71.
He was head of the Book Carrier, which represented publishers to accounts in the Mid-Atlantic region, from 1975 to 1991. When he left the business to become a real estate agent in Florida with his wife, Jennifer, longtime Book Carrier reps Bill Hoar and Ted Wedel founded Chesapeake & Hudson, which continues to serve the book trade in the Northeast. In 1989, Carrier organized a meeting of rep group heads at the ABA show in Washington, leading to the formal establishment of NAIPR that December.
Contributions in Carrier's memory may be made to NAIPR.
