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