Bearport Publishing

What Bearport Publishing does

Bearport Publishing is a privately held US children's educational book publisher headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with an additional corporate office in Bloomington, Minnesota. The company produces curriculum-aligned nonfiction and fiction titles spanning PreK through middle and high school grades, organized across nine imprint brands including SilverTip Books, Bear Claw Books, Bearcub Books, Create! Books, Fusion Books, Roar! Books, Supersonic Phonics, Supersonic Sounds, and Ursa Books. Its core product offering centers on physical books with reinforced library bindings backed by an unconditional lifetime guarantee, supplemented by hosted eBooks and savings bundles combining print and multi-user digital access.

The company's commercial technology stack is the third-party TitleLeaf publishing and e-commerce platform, which powers the bearportpublishing.com storefront and a separate classroom-focused microsite at classroom.bearportpublishing.com. Distribution combines direct e-commerce with a regional sales representative network, a free printed catalog for institutional buyers, and email marketing. Pricing follows a unit-pricing model with a 30% institutional discount off list, free shipping on orders over $100, typical reinforced titles priced around $21.67 S/L and eBooks at $19.99, and higher-value multi-title sets and bundles.

Bearport's revenue model is one-time book sales to schools, libraries, and individual buyers, with no subscription, licensing, or recurring digital revenue disclosed beyond multi-user eBook access bundled with print. Customer segments are entirely US-based and concentrated in K-12 education — primarily school libraries and classroom educators, with public libraries as a secondary vertical. The company shows ongoing product investment through its Spring 2026 catalog of 21 new titles and continued imprint expansion, but no funding history, ownership structure beyond private/closely-held, or financials are disclosed.

Name

Bearport Publishing

Legal name

Bearport Publishing

Website

https://bearportpublishing.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bearport Publishing is a privately held Minneapolis-based children's educational book publisher serving US K-12 schools, libraries, and educators with curriculum-aligned print and eBook titles across nine imprints, featuring reinforced library bindings with a lifetime guarantee.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Children's Book Publishing

NAICS

Book Publishers (51313)

SIC

Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

Children’s Nonfiction Educational (Science, History, Nature) (EDAGAIAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Children’s STEM & Coding Trade (Math, Robotics, Maker) (EDAGAIAF)

Keywords

• Children's educational books
• Library binding books
• School library publishing
• Phonics reading programs
• Curriculum nonfiction books

Headquarters

HQ city

Minneapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Book Sales: Sale of physical reinforced library books and eBooks to schools, libraries, and individuals. Products sold individually, in sets, or as savings bundles combining physical and digital formats.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Bearport Publishing is an educational children's book publisher that produces and sells curriculum-aligned nonfiction and fiction titles for PreK through middle/high school audiences. Products are offered in reinforced library binding physical format, hosted eBook digital format, and combined savings bundles, and are organized across multiple specialized imprints including SilverTip Books, Supersonic Phonics, Bearcub Books, and others.

Product overview

Bearport Publishing is a children's book publisher offering educational content across multiple imprints (SilverTip Books, Bear Claw Books, Bearcub Books, Create! Books, Fusion Books, Roar! Books, Supersonic Phonics, Supersonic Sounds, and Ursa Books). Their product portfolio spans reinforced library binding physical books with lifetime guarantees, hosted eBooks, and savings bundles combining print and digital formats. Products are organized by grade levels (PreK-K through Middle/High School), genre categories (Beginning Readers, Fiction, Graphic Novel, High-Interest, Illustrated, Makerspace, Narrative Nonfiction, Nonfiction, Paired Fiction/Nonfiction, Take-Home Backpack), and subjects (Animals, Biographies, Careers, Early Life Skills, History, Language Arts, Math, Myths and Folklore, Science, Social Studies, Sports). The company operates a separate classroom platform in addition to its main library catalog.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SilverTip Books: Publisher imprint offering children's books with dyslexia-friendly fonts and SilverTips for Success comprehension features.
• Bear Claw Books
• Bearcub Books
• Create! Books
• Fusion Books
• Roar! Books
• Supersonic Phonics
• Ursa Books

Products and services

• Reinforced Library Binding Books Physical children's educational books with reinforced library bindings backed by an unconditional lifetime guarantee, sold to schools, libraries, and individual buyers.
• Hosted eBooks Digital eBook versions of Bearport's children's book titles offered as single-title hosted eBook access for schools and libraries.
• Savings Bundles Bundled offerings combining a reinforced physical book with multi-user digital eBook access at a discounted combined price.
• Classroom Platform Separate classroom-focused website offering Bearport's products targeted specifically at classroom educator use, distinct from the main library catalog.

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Rosen Publishing Group: Rosen is a direct competitor in K-12 library-bound nonfiction and educational reference publishing, particularly strong in social-studies, science, and high-interest/low-reading-level content. It targets the same school and library institutional buyers with curriculum-aligned children's nonfiction.
• Jump! / Bellwether Media: Bellwether Media, publisher of the Jump! imprint, is a direct competitor in K-5 library-bound nonfiction children's series with strong school/library distribution. It competes head-to-head with Bearport for shelf placement in library circulating collections.
• Cherry Lake Publishing: Cherry Lake is a direct peer producing curriculum-aligned K-12 nonfiction series for school and library markets, with comparable print library binding formats and grade-level segmentation. It is a comparable specialized educational publisher targeting the same institutional buyers.
• Lerner Publishing Group: Lerner is one of the largest independent children's book publishers focused on school and library markets, with diverse imprints (Lerner, Millbrook, Carolrhoda, Graphic Universe) covering K-12 nonfiction trade. It is highly comparable as a direct peer serving the same institutional buyers with similarly curriculum-aligned nonfiction.
• Perfection Learning: Perfection Learning produces K-12 library-bound and paperback educational children's titles targeting school and library markets, with strong curriculum alignment and similar grade-level segmentation. It is a direct peer in the K-12 educational nonfiction trade publishing space.
• Capstone: Capstone is a direct competitor in K-12 library and classroom-bound educational children's publishing, with overlapping imprints (PebbleGo, Pebble, Capstone Press) and similar institutional sales channels into schools and libraries. Both companies compete for the same reinforced-bound nonfiction trade book placements in US school and library collections.
• Teacher Created Materials: Teacher Created Materials publishes K-12 nonfiction and literacy materials, including library-bound educational books targeting the same classroom and school library buyers. It is a direct competitor in the school/library educational nonfiction trade space.

Broad incumbents

• Scholastic Corporation: Scholastic is a broad incumbent in children's publishing with a much larger school-channel footprint (book fairs, book clubs, classroom magazines) that competes for the same school and library budgets. While not a direct format match, Scholastic's breadth and sales-rep coverage make it the dominant incumbent institutional buyer in the educational children's book category.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/BearportPublishing
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bearport-publishing

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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