Midwest Tape

Midwest Tape, LLC
Type	Limited liability company
Industry	eBooks, Library Services, Software and App Development, Digital Content Management, Publishing
Founded	1989; 37 years ago (1989) in Holland, Ohio
Founder	John Eldred Jr.
Headquarters	Holland, OH, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Jeff Jankowski (President and CEO)
Products	physical and digital fulfillment services for libraries and publishers
Number of employees	350
Website	www.midwesttape.com

Midwest Tape LLC is a full-service distributor serving the public library sector. The company specializes in shelf-ready DVDs, Blu-rays, physical audiobooks, and similar merchandise that libraries can purchase "pre-processed" with the needed bar codes, labels, RFID, and other tags necessary for libraries. The Midwest Tape catalog includes more than 13 million titles.

History

Midwest Tape LLC was founded in 1989 and is located in Holland, Ohio. Its origins trace back to 1983 in which, John Eldred, the owner of a video rental store "Sights and Sounds" in Toledo, Ohio, was encouraged by a customer to sell used VHS tapes to public libraries.^{[citation needed]} Subsequently, selling VHS tapes to public libraries became a significant part of the "Sights and Sounds" business. Then, in 1989, John Eldred founded Midwest Tape to specifically serve the public library market.

Subsidiaries

Hoopla: a web and mobile platform for accessing digital content through public libraries.

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