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U.S. Book Show Keynote Speaker: John Ingram


Looking back at ‘The Family Business’
By Jim Milliot, with Judith Rosen
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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. ....

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Presenting the Inaugural U.S. Book Show


By Judith Rosen
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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. ....

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News Corp's Plan To Acquire Houghton Mifflin's Trade Division


Awaiting regulatory approval, HarperCollins parent News Corp’s intended acquisition of HMH Books & Media raises some new concern about book publishing consolidation.
Taking a selfie at Macy’s in Manhattan on West 34th Street, March 24. Image – iStockphoto: Massimo Giachetti
Announced Acquisition is Worth US$349 Million
As news weeks go in international publishing, this is a big one. There are reports of longtime Hachette Livre CEO Arnaud Nourry’s ouster in Paris. And with Bertelsmann’s announcement in Germany of financial gains in the pandemic year 2020 has also come more cautionary signals about regulators’ examinations of Penguin Random House’s plan to acquire Simon & Schuster. ....

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