Legato Publishers Group, the affiliate of Perseus's Publishers Group West that was formed earlier this year and is headed by Mark Suchomel, former president of Independent Publishers Group, has signed 20 publishers as clients. Excluding Buffalo Media Works, which Legato will begin distributing immediately, the "founding publishers" are current IPG clients and will be distributed by Legato beginning January 1.
Legato Publishers Group aims to build a client list of 30 to 40 publishers over the next two to three years. Its headquarters are in Chicago, and its distribution center is in Jackson, Tenn.
The publishers are:
- Amherst Media
- Aviation Supplies & Academics
- Bailiwick Press
- BlueBridge Books
- Bright Ring Publishing
- Buffalo Media Works
- Clavis Books
- Duo Press
- ECW Press
- Findhorn Press
- Medallion Media Group
- Nomad Press
- Our World of Books
- Roaring Forties Press
- Santa Monica Press
- Search Press
- Tachyon Publications
- Trafalgar Square Books
- Visible Ink Press
- Waterford Press