Bruce Joshua Miller, founder and longtime head of Miller Trade Book Marketing and an editor, died on January 11. He was 70.
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Miller founded the commission rep group Miller Trade Book Marketing in 1985 and was known for his strong support of bricks-and-mortar stores and university presses. In 2012, he and Ned Stuckey-French led efforts to keep the University of Missouri from shutting down the University of Missouri Press. He was recognized for that battle the next year when he was named Publishers Weekly's Rep of the Year.
Miller was an accomplished editor, with works such as Curiosity's Cats: Writers on Research, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Miller came from a book family. His late parents, Jordan and Anita Miller, founded Academy Press in 1976. In the early 1980s, they changed the name to Academy Chicago Publishers and, in 2014, sold the company to Chicago Review Press.
Miller's brother Eric Lincoln Miller was involved in Miller Trade Book Marketing for many years, was publisher of Wicker Park Books, and is now head of 3iBooks. His other brother, Mark Crispin Miller, is an author and professor of media studies at New York University.