Effective February 1, Bookmasters will handle sales, distribution, and fulfillment in the U.S. and Canada of I.B. Tauris. Marketing and publicity in the U.S. will be managed from I.B. Tauris headquarters in London.
Established in 1983, I.B. Tauris publishes more than 300 titles a year, mainly of nonfiction trade and academic titles, particularly in the humanities, current affairs, popular history and travel. It has a backlist of more than 2,700 titles.
Noting that I.B. Tauris has been distributed by Palgrave Macmillan in North America, Jonathan McDonnell, managing director at I.B. Tauris, said, "The next step for a company our size has traditionally been to open offices on the East Coast, but this really makes less sense in this day and age. We can now facilitate more direct relationships with our North American authors and partners from the U.K., just as we do in other parts of the world."