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Ingram Academic Services Signs University of Pennsylvania Press

June 21, 2018

Ingram Academic Services Signs University of Pennsylvania Press

NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- Ingram Academic Services, an Ingram Publisher Services brand, has inked an agreement with University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press). Penn Press will use Ingram’s warehousing and worldwide distribution network, digital asset management, academic marketing and other premier services to expand their market presence and offer their publications to customers in more places.

“Penn Press has for many years taken advantage of some of the powerful publishing and distribution services Ingram offers and has grown to see Ingram as a committed, trusted, responsive industry partner. Now, as part of Ingram Academic Services, we look forward to participating more fully in Ingram's developing service ecosystem. This promises only to help us achieve our mission more effectively and more efficiently,” said Eric Halpern, Director of University of Pennsylvania Press.

“We are very excited to have University of Pennsylvania Press join our growing group of high-caliber academic presses,” said Kurt Hettler, Director, Ingram Academic Services. “By expanding Penn’s reach through our wide distribution network and extensive service offerings, we look forward to helping them achieve their mission: to provide the best in scholarship to the widest possible audience.”

Ingram Academic Services provides global sales, marketing and distribution services to academic publishers from around the world.

Just this year, Penn Press authors and publications received three notable honors:

Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
William S. Kiser
Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
Historical Society of New Mexico

The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco
Cary Cordova
Lawrence W. Levine Award
Organization of American Historians

Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
Randy M. Browne
Publication Award
Ohio Academy of History

About Ingram | www.ingramcontent.com

The world is reading and Ingram Content Group (“Ingram”) connects people with content in all forms. Providing comprehensive services for publishers, retailers, libraries and educators, Ingram makes these services seamless and accessible through technology, innovation and creativity. With an expansive global network of offices and facilities, Ingram’s services include digital and physical book distribution, print on demand, and digital learning. Ingram Content Group is a part of Ingram Industries Inc. and includes Ingram Book Group LLC, Ingram Publisher Services LLC, Lightning Source LLC, VitalSource Technologies LLC, Ingram Library Services LLC, and Tennessee Book Company LLC.

About University of Pennsylvania Press | www.upenn.edu

About University of Pennsylvania Press. Penn Press was originally established in 1890, and its imprint first appeared on publications in the closing decade of the nineteenth century—among the earliest such imprints in America. Today the Press has an active backlist of more than 3000 titles and an annual output of upward of 120 new books, plus 20 journals, in a focused editorial program across the humanities and social sciences.

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