FAMILY-owned business enterprises; FAMILY Business: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books, The (Book); COVID-19 pandemic; PUBLISHING; BUSINESS names; BOOKS & reading; INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics)

Keel Hunt: The Family Business: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books: West Margin Press, Berkley, California, USA 2021, 226 pp, $24.95, Hardcover, ISBN: 978-15132-6721-0 And while there is no shortage of great names in the business of book publishing, there has been no one who has done more to reshape the landscape of the book business than John Ingram. While Ingram now has competitors, the fact is that the publishing industry could never have weathered the trials and tribulations of the Covid pandemic were it not for the remarkable changes prompted by Ingram's innovations. [Extracted from the article]

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