Lightning Source offers a full suite of digital fulfillment services ranging from digital rights management to secure ebook delivery on behalf of retailers.
However, if you have an existing agreement
with Lightning Source for Print - On - Demand or e-book services or are currently working with Ingram Publisher Services for distribution services please contact your client services representative (CSR) or IPS account manager before setting up an IngramSpark account.
Aaron's book guides you through the process of specifically publishing using
Lightning Source for print - on - demand.
The publisher is also
using Lightning Source ® for book manufacturing and Ingram's CoreSource ® platform for digital distribution.
As most of you know, my book Aiming at Amazon is all about selling books to Amazon
through Lightning Source at short discount — and I'm ready to help any Lightning publisher keep doing that.
Re.ad Publishing also takes advantage of print - on - demand services
from Lightning Source ®, and both Plough Publishing and Re.ad Publishing use Ingram's CoreSource ® for digital asset management & distribution.
He was appointed Vice President and Controller
of Lightning Source in 2003, Senior Vice President for Finance in 2004, and Senior VP Finance for Ingram Content Group in 2012.
When I first did this type of post I created a downloadable PDF: How to Make PDFs for
Lightning Source Print - on - Demand — A Free Report.
Our success with
Lightning Source as a print - on - demand provider, together with their digital fulfillment and eBook enabling services, makes our partnership with them an important one for both Simon & Schuster and our authors.
As print books still play an important role for children's books, having a publishing imprint name will allow you to set up with a company
like Lightning Source for cheaper print books and wider distribution.
Even looking
at Lightning Source in IngramSpark, the printing procedures and methods that we have used have changed over time and have gotten better and better with each passing year.
Ingram Publisher Services is currently handling distribution for the company in the U.S. and Canada, and supporting the publisher with its CoreSource ® platform for e-book distribution and print - on - demand through
Lightning Source ®.
Many authors publish
on Lightning Source to get their books into the Ingram catalog which bookstores use to make their orders.
However, most of these companies offer a limited reach in terms of marketing and distribution, so I set myself up as a micro-publisher with
Lightning Source in order for my book to be listed in the world's largest book catalogue and thus give me access to most bookstores and online vendors around the globe.
Diversion Publishing, Inkshares and AMPress will also take advantage of print - on - demand services through
Lightning Source Inc..
With POD there's no need to store an inventory of printed books or try to anticipate what the demand for that book will be — you just get an order, then print a book, one at a time.POD really started some 20 years ago when John Ingram founded a company
called Lightning Source ®.
The combination of
Lightning Source POD technology and one stop, direct distribution make it possible for us to keep titles in print that we couldn't normally justify warehousing.
Contrary to current rumours around the interwebs, Ingram has stated that existing
Lightning Source accounts will not be rolled over or consolidated into IngramSpark.
We utilize all the extended distribution channels
Lightning Source provides, primary among them being Ingram and Baker & Taylor.
If the above is not interesting for you, or if you are only now venturing into self publishing your work, forget
about Lightning Source, you'll get lost soon.
Digital printing by
Lightning Source technology allows details of your book to be stored electronically for later printing on a one - off basis.
Unlike Lightning Source where you can select a wholesale discount of between 20 % — 55 %, IngramSpark enforces a locked 55 %.
IngramSpark, an Ingram
Lightning Source LLC service, was launched in 2013 for indie publishers and authors as a way to bring their books to a global audience.
And Ingram
owns Lightning Source, the most comprehensive and highly individualized approach for printing and delivering books in the world today.
Specifically, I've been down into the depths of customer service, user forums, technical spec sheets, and more with the top three:
Lightning Source International, Lulu, and CreateSpace.