Publishers Group West (PGW) is a book distributor founded in 1976 in

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that has been owned by

Ingram Content Group Ingram Content Group is an American service provider to the book publishing industry, based in La Vergne, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of Ingram Industries. Shawn Morin is CEO, and John R. Ingram is chairman of Ingram Industries. History Th ...

since 2016. They share their parent company's warehouse in

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and sales offices in New York, Toronto, and London.

History

PGW was the largest distributor of independent presses in the United States during the 1990s. In 2007, PGW was acquired by

Perseus Books Group Perseus Books Group was an American publishing company founded in year 1996 by investor Frank Pearl. Perseus acquired the trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley (including the Merloyd Lawrence imprint) in 1997. In 2005, Perseus acquired ...

and some of PGW's publishers moved to Perseus's other divisions. Periodic additions to their list of publishers include an additional 5 added in 2012. Within the book business, they were known for throwing a party at the annual BookExpo convention, with musical performers including

Ivan Neville Ivan Neville (born August 19, 1959) is an American multi-instrumentalist musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the son of Aaron Neville and nephew to the other members of The Neville Brothers. Career Neville has released four solo albums and ...

's Dumpstaphunk and

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in 2012. Perseus' distribution business was acquired by

in 2016.

Partial list of publishers

* 2.13.61 *

Agate Publishing Agate Publishing is an independent small press book publisher based in Evanston, Illinois, Evanston, Illinois. The company, incorporated in 2002 with its first book published in 2003, was founded by current president Doug Seibold. At its inception, ...

Archaia Studios Press Archaia Entertainment, LLC, commonly known as Archaia (formerly known as Archaia Studios Press), is an imprint of American comic book and graphic novel publisher Boom! Studios. Archaia Entertainment, LLC was originally an American comic book pub ...

Baker & Taylor Baker & Taylor, a distributor of books to public and academic libraries and schools, has been in business for almost 200 years. It is based in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently owned by President & CEO Amandeep Kochar. Before being acquire ...

Publishing Group * Bilingual Books * Black Classic Press *

Blast Books Blast Books is a New York-based book publisher whose catalog consists of non-fiction books which focus on cultural and historical subjects, often of an obscure or unusual nature. Many of their publications include archival illustrations and phot ...

* Classical Comics * Cleis Press *

Counterpoint In music theory, counterpoint is the relationship of two or more simultaneous musical lines (also called voices) that are harmonically dependent on each other, yet independent in rhythm and melodic contour. The term originates from the Latin ...

Frances Lincoln Publishers Frances Elisabeth Rosemary Lincoln (20 March 1945 – 26 February 2001) was an English independent publisher of illustrated books. She published under her own name and the company went on to become Frances Lincoln Publishers. In 1995, Lincoln ...

* Grove/Atlantic, Inc., publisher of '' Cold Mountain'', New York Times Bestseller **

Grove Press Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1947. Imprints include: Black Cat, Evergreen, Venus Library, and Zebra. Barney Rosset purchased the company in 1951 and turned it into an alternative book press in the United S ...

* Heyday Books * Hunter House * Keen Communications *

McSweeney's McSweeney's Publishing is an American nonprofit publishing house founded by Dave Eggers in 1998 and headquartered in San Francisco. The executive director is Amanda Uhle. McSweeney's first publication was the literary journal'' Timothy McSw ...

* Milkweed Editions * New World Library * Night Shade Books (added 2012) *

Open City In war, an open city is a settlement which has announced it has abandoned all defensive efforts, generally in the event of the imminent capture of the city to avoid destruction. Once a city has declared itself open, the opposing military will ...

(defunct) *

Open Court Publishing Company The Open Court Publishing Company is a publisher with offices in Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois. It is part of the Carus Publishing Company of Peru, Illinois. History Open Court was founded in 1887 by Edward C. Hegeler of the Matthiessen-Hege ...

* Parallax Press, publisher of works by

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* Quest Books * Rare Bird Books *

Re/Search RE/Search Publications is an American magazine and book publisher, based in San Francisco, founded by its editor V. Vale in 1980. In several issues, Andrea Juno was also credited as an editor. It was the successor to Vale's earlier punk rock fa ...

* Ronin Publishing * Scarletta Press *

Seal Press Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York City, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group. It publishes books in the fields of psychology, philosophy, economics, science, politics, sociology, current affairs, and his ...

Sierra Club Books Sierra Club Books was the publishing division, for both adults and children, of the Sierra Club, founded in by then club President David Brower. They were a United States publishing company located in San Francisco, California with a concentrat ...

Soft Skull Press Counterpoint LLC was a publishing company that Perseus Books Group launched in 2007. It was formed from the consolidation of three presses: Perseus' Counterpoint Press, Shoemaker & Hoard, and Soft Skull Press. The company published books under b ...

* TalentSmart, publishers of '' Emotional Intelligence 2.0'' * Three Rooms Press *

Thunder Bay Press Thunder Bay Press is a California-based publisher of illustrated non-fiction books. Subject matter includes adult crafts and leisure activities, pop culture, cooking, pets and domestic animals, sports, history, transportation, and nature. Thunde ...

* Tin House Books * Urantia Foundation *

Wilderness Press Wilderness Press is a publisher of outdoor guidebooks and maps that was founded in Berkeley, California in 1967. Its first publication was ''Sierra North'' (1967/2005). Reissued in 2005, this is considered the authoritative guidebook for hikers ...

Wisdom Publications The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) was founded in 1975 by Gelugpa Lamas Thubten Yeshe and Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, who began teaching Tibetan Buddhism to Western students in Nepal. The FPMT has grown to encompas ...

Publishers formerly distributed by PGW

* NBM Publishing (1986-1988) *

Demos Medical Publishing Demos Medical Publishing, now an imprint of Springer Publishing Company, publishes books on neurology, oncology, pathology Pathology is the study of disease. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporat ...

, aka Demos Health (2005-2013)

References

External links

Publishers Group West website
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