Ingram Content Group is an American service provider to the book
publishing industry, based in
La Vergne, Tennessee
La Vergne ( ) is a city in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The population was 38,719 at the 2020 census. La Vergne lies within the Nashville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
La Vergne was incorporated in 1861. Historical variant names inc ...
. It is a subsidiary of
Ingram Industries.
Shawn Morin is CEO, and
John R. Ingram is chairman of
Ingram Industries.
History
The Ingram Content Group was formed, in 2009, when Ingram Lightning Group merged with Ingram Digital Group. Ingram Content Group's operating units are Ingram Book Company, Ingram International Inc., Ingram Library Services Inc., Ingram Publisher Services Inc., Ingram Periodicals Inc., Ingram Digital, Lightning Source Inc., Spring Arbor Distributors Inc., and Tennessee Book Company LLC.
During 1999 and 2000, Ingram Industries negotiated a sale to
Barnes & Noble which was ultimately withdrawn after pressure from
independent bookstores and the
American Booksellers Association.
In July 2006, Ingram Industries acquired
VitalSource Technologies, Inc, which it later sold to
Francisco Partners
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in April 2021.
In June 2014, the company, in conjunction with
Hachette Book Group USA
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and
Perseus Books Group, announced that Hachette would buy Perseus, and then sell that company's client services businesses to Ingram, with financial details undisclosed.
On April 4, 2016, John Ingram stepped down as CEO, and was succeeded by Shawn Morin.
In December 2018, it was reported that Ingram Content extended an offer to purchase book distributor
Baker & Taylor
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's retail and wholesale business from their parent company,
Follett. As a result, Ingram informed the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the proposed deal, and a preliminary investigation was started. The FTC contacted leading book retailers,
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, and major and independent book publishers to help determine the impact, if any, from the sale.
Services
The company has the industry's largest active book inventory with access to 7.5 million titles. The markets they serve include booksellers, librarians, educators and specialty retailers. Ingram employs approximately 3,000 people worldwide.
Ingram Content Group distributes to independent book stores throughout the United States, from warehouses in
Oregon
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,
Pennsylvania
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,
Tennessee
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, and
Indiana
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. It also operates a
print-on-demand
Print on demand (POD) is a printing technology and business process in which book copies (or other documents, packaging or materials) are not printed until the company receives an order, allowing prints of single or small quantities. While oth ...
business, under the
Lightning Source
Lightning Source is a printer and distributor of print-on-demand books. The company is a business unit of Ingram Content Group. Originally incorporated in 1996 as Lightning Print Inc., the company is headquartered in La Vergne, Tennessee. Its UK ...
brand, with facilities in Tennessee, Pennsylvania,
Ohio
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,
California
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,
United Kingdom
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,
France
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and
Australia. The company also provides full service distribution, including sales and marketing services via its Ingram Publisher Services division.
In addition to print distribution, Ingram also provides digital content services and distribution through CoreSource, VitalSource, and MyiLibrary.
In 2015, Ingram purchased Aer.io which allows websites, based in the US to sell books from the Ingram catalog.
In June 2017, Ingram purchased Book Network International Limited, a book distributor based in
Plymouth, U.K., from
Rowman & Littlefield.
See also
*
List of book distributors
This is a list of book distributors, companies that act as distributors for book publishers, selling primarily to the book trade. The list includes defunct and merged/acquired companies, and distributors whose primary business is not books, such as ...
References
External links
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2009 establishments in Tennessee
Book publishing companies based in Tennessee
Book distributors
Companies based in Nashville, Tennessee
Ingram family
Publishing companies established in 2009