Turpin Distribution
about us

We provide a bespoke range of global fulfilment and distribution services, for research and scholarly publishers, for both print and eContent books, journals and magazines.

Turpin is an international distributor with its purpose-built UK head office located close to the A1M and two international airports.  Our US office is based in Connecticut.  Over 100 members of staff are employed, the majority of whom work in our Customer Service, Finance and Warehouse departments.

We have been trading for 40 years and have over 55 clients including Brill, Kluwer Law, the OECD, The Eurospan Group, The British Library, The British Psychological Society, The American Association for Cancer Research, The United Nations,The British Computer Society and Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC.  (A full client list can be found here.)

Turpin have developed and support, in house, its own computer systems to meet the specific needs of publishers in the academic, professional and scholarly publishing community.

We are members of the following trade associations and professional interest groups - please click to their website to view the benefits available to their members.

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

The Independent Publishers Guild

UK Serials Group  (UKSG)

The Society for Scholarly Publishing

Book Industry Communication

The International Committee on EDI for Serials