Distributed Art Publishers

Name

Distributed Art Publishers

Legal name

Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

Website

https://artbook.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Art Book Distribution and Retail

NAICS

Book Publishers (51313), Book Publishers (513130), Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131)

SIC

Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

Book & Periodical Wholesalers (Trade Distribution) (MPAJAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

E-book Retail & Reading Platforms (Stores, Apps, Devices) (MPAJAMAA), Art, Photography & Illustrated Books Publishing (MPAJAAAF)

Keywords

• Art book distribution
• Museum publications
• Visual arts books
• Exhibition catalogs
• Specialty book retail

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Book Distribution: D.A.P. generates revenue through distributing art books from museum and independent publishers to trade accounts, bookstores, museums, and consumers. They serve as exclusive distributor for numerous publishers.
2. Direct Consumer Sales: Revenue from direct online sales through artbook.com to individual consumers, with pricing ranging from $12.95 to $375 per title.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P.) operates as the exclusive distributor of art, photography, architecture, and design books for major museum publishers (MoMA, MFA Publications, Guggenheim, Walker Art Center) and hundreds of international and independent art book presses. The company sells more than 500 new titles per catalog season through its artbook.com e-commerce platform, wholesale trade accounts via Ingram, and by-appointment showrooms in New York and Los Angeles.

Product overview

D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers operates primarily as an art book distribution company and online retail platform. The core offerings consist of ARTBOOK.COM (their e-commerce platform) and the D.A.P. Catalog (their seasonal trade catalog). They distribute art books, museum exhibition catalogues, photography monographs, architecture and design titles, and artists' books from museum publishers (MoMA, MFA Publications) and independent art publishers worldwide. Additional offerings include Curated Libraries (thematic book collections), a Retailer Network (wholesale distribution), and an Artbook YouTube Channel for video content. The company operates physical showrooms in New York and Los Angeles for trade and retail customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ARTBOOK.COM E-commerce Storefront

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 500 new books featured per catalog season

Named customers7 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• IngramcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorIngram serves as the primary trade account distribution partner for D.A.P. in the USA, handling wholesale orders through Ingram Customer Care.
• Printed MattercoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFeatured store partner and non-profit organization dedicated to artists' books. Printed Matter operates the world-leading non-profit store in Chelsea, NYC, and is featured as a recommended source for art books on artbook.com.
• Artbook @ MoMA PS1coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorD.A.P. operates an Artbook location at MoMA PS1 in New York, serving as a retail presence within the museum.
• Artbook @ Hauser & WirthcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorD.A.P. operates an Artbook location at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, serving as a retail presence within the gallery.
• Arcana: Books on the ArtsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRecommended out of print and rare art book specialist partner for locating difficult-to-find titles.
• Strand BookstoreminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRecommended rare book specialist partner with The Rare Book Room division.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Thames & Hudson: Thames & Hudson is a major independent publisher of illustrated books on art, architecture, design, and visual culture with its own global distribution operation, directly comparable to D.A.P. as a publisher-distributor of high-quality art books to trade and consumer markets.
• Phaidon Press: Phaidon publishes premium illustrated art, architecture, design, and photography books with direct distribution to retailers and consumers worldwide, making it a direct competitor in the high-end art book trade alongside D.A.P.'s distributed titles.
• Taschen: Taschen is a global art and illustrated book publisher with premium catalog raisonnés, monographs, and photography titles, operating its own worldwide distribution and D2C site similar to artbook.com.
• Prestel Publishing: Prestel publishes illustrated art books and museum exhibition catalogs (including partnerships with major museums), directly competing with the publishers D.A.P. distributes and the catalog breadth on artbook.com.
• Chronicle Books: Chronicle Books publishes design, art, photography, food, and visual culture titles with broad trade distribution and strong gift/illustrated-book positioning, making it a comparable independent illustrated-book publisher-distributor to D.A.P.'s catalog range.
• Independent Publishers Group (IPG): IPG is one of the largest independent book distribution companies in the US, providing trade distribution and D2C fulfillment for hundreds of publishers — the closest functional analogue to D.A.P.'s wholesale and e-commerce distribution model.
• Consortium Book Sales & Distribution: Consortium distributes independent literary and art publishers to the trade market and operates its own D2C channels, directly comparable as a competing distributor of independent and museum art book publishers.
• Publishers Group Canada (PGC): PGC distributes independent publishers to the Canadian trade and operates D2C fulfillment, a regional distribution peer to D.A.P. for shared art and illustrated book publishers seeking North American reach.

Broad incumbents

• Abrams Books: Abrams is a long-established illustrated trade publisher with a strong art book list and its own trade distribution, serving similar museum, gallery, and consumer channels as D.A.P. but with a broader general-interest portfolio.

Emerging players

• Hatje Cantz: Hatje Cantz is a German art and museum book publisher whose ~800 in-print titles are distributed exclusively by D.A.P. in the US; it functions simultaneously as a key supplier/partner to D.A.P. and a competitor publisher in the same category.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/artbook
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/ARTBOOKDAP
• Facebookfacebook.com/distributedartpublishers
• Instagraminstagram.com/artbook
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/1179709

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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