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Looking back at âThe Family Businessâ By Jim Milliot, with Judith Rosen | May 14, 2021
To mark the first 50 years of Ingram Content Group and the company’s first $2 billion year, in 2020 John Ingram, chairman of the board of ICG and Ingram Industries Inc., will talk with
PW senior v-p, editorial director Jim Milliot and reporter and former Ingram spokesperson Keel Hunt, author of
The Family Business: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books, published in April by West Margin Press, an Ingram subsidiary.
In the book, Hunt traces the roots of ICG, the country’s largest book wholesaler, print-on-demand company, and independent book distributor, from its early days, when John Ingram’s father, Bronson Ingram, purchased the Tennessee Book Co., a textbook business, for $245,000 in 1964. Six years later, the Ingram Book Co., the forerunner of ICG, was launched. Following Bronson’s death in 1995, John took over the company.
By Judith Rosen | May 14, 2021
In January, Publishers Weekly announced the launch of an online book fair to fill the void left by the abrupt closure, late last year, of BookExpo. It was not clear then what form the event would take in the midst of a pandemic, but one thing was certain: the industry in the U.S. couldn’t go another year without a central place to promote its fall titles. And PW CEO and publisher Cevin Bryerman was convinced that the magazine could bring its leadership, brand, and marketing reach to set the stage for a new virtual fair.
We know authors and agents, publishers and printers, libraries and bookstores but there’s one company responsible for bringing just about every book you’ve ever read into your life, and you may not even know it exists. In
The Family Business, author and journalist Keel Hunt charts the history and contributions of Ingram Content Group, a little-known, family-owned business based in Tennessee that has shaped the publishing world for 50 years. We asked Hunt a few questions about Ingram, its role in the industry and its vision for the future.
Ingram s role in the publishing business is relatively invisible to the general reader. What gaps does Ingram fill for publishers, libraries and retailers?