Eric Kampmann is President of Midpoint Trade Books, one of the leading sales and distribution companies for book publishers. Midpoint has built its reputation on an innovative and powerful sales strategy that is designed to help independent publishers compete successfully in the trade book marketplace. Eric is also the Publisher and President of two publishing companies: Beaufort Books and Moyer Bell. Beaufort gained national attention in 2007 when it published on behalf of the Goldman family the controversial national bestseller, If I Did It.

Kampmann entered book publishing through an entry level sales position at the Viking Press in 1970. He became Assistant Sales Manger there and then moved on to St. Martin’s Press as Sales Manager. In 1977 Eric moved to Simon & Schuster as National Sales where he focused on building a sales organization that could deal with the significant sales growth at S & S. In 1980, he was promoted to the position of Vice President, Director of Sales.

He left Simon & Schuster in 1981 to found Kampmann & Company, a distribution company for independent publisher. Eric has always been known as an entrepreneur and innovator. He is proud of the fact that Midpoint has become known as a company that knows how to compete with the biggest publishers while maintaining the feel of a small and very personal sales and distribution organization.

Eric has taught courses on book publishing at Harvard, Columbia, NYU as well as numerous publishing and writers conferences.

Eric is the author of three books: The Book Publishers Handbook (2007), Tree of Life (2003) and Trail Thoughts (2008)