Publishers Group West

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Publishers Group West
Founded1976
Headquarters,
Services Book distribution
Parent Ingram Content Group
Website www.pgw.com

Publishers Group West (PGW) is a book distributor founded in 1976 in Berkeley, California that has been owned by Ingram Content Group since 2016. [1] They share their parent company's warehouse in Jackson, Tennessee and sales offices in New York, Toronto, and London. [2]

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History

PGW was the largest distributor of independent presses in the United States during the 1990s. [3] [4]

In 2007, PGW was acquired by Perseus Books Group [5] [6] and some of PGW's publishers moved to Perseus's other divisions. [7] Periodic additions to their list of publishers include an additional 5 added in 2012. [8]

Within the book business, they were known for throwing a party at the annual BookExpo convention, with musical performers including Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk and Chaka Khan in 2012. [9]

Perseus' distribution business was acquired by Ingram Content Group in 2016. [10]

Partial list of publishers

Publishers formerly distributed by PGW

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