Ingram Spark is a division
of Lightning Source, which provides a wide range of publishing, printing and distribution options mainly for publishers with a list of books.
Given Amazon's tilt toward displaying pricey books in search results, I've event thought of raising the price
of my Lightning Source hardback editions extremely high — say twice that of the paperbacks.
(Note that IngramSpark replaces their Lightning Source publishing service, so unless you're a legacy user
of Lightning Source you'll sign up with IngramSpark.)
In February, a default judgment was entered against Tate when its owners did a no - show in court on behalf
of Lightning Source.
(By the way, Ingram is also the parent
of Lightning Source, a service Ingram positions as ideal for medium and large publishers.)
The board members who will be leaving on June 30, 2015, after four years of service are Peter Goodman of Stone Bridge Press, Tom Doherty of Cardinal Publishers Group / Blue River Press, MaryAnn Kohl of Bright Ring Publishing, Inc., Christopher Robbins of Familius, and Janice Schnell - Butler
of Lightning Source, Inc..
IngramSpark, the sister company
of Lightning Source, is also popular because it offers additional printing options including hardcover printing and more competitive color pricing.
(By the way, Ingram is also the parent
of Lightning Source, a service Ingram positions as ideal for medium and... [Read more...]
So some authors are sticking with CreateSpace for Amazon sales but distributing to other retailers through the «neutral» IngramSpark, which is part
of Lightning Source.
Other suppliers, like Lightning Source, allow you to set your own discount within limits but offer just that one discount to every retailer or jobber who buys your book from Ingram — the world's largest book distributor and the parent company
of Lightning Source and IngramSpark.
Although I didn't write about the P.O.D print side
of Lightning Source in this blog, I have had experience of working with them in that area and they are great.
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.
Not to get too Orwellian on you but Thor Distribution is basically a repackaged version
of Lightning Source's POD program.
As a member
of the Lightning Source management team, he has worked closely with Mr. Kerrigan for the past four years.
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.
Besides a detailed treatment
of Lightning Source, it will cover other aspects of publishing important to those of us with our own publishing businesses.
Most readers of this blog will know I'm a huge fan
of Lightning Source.
Not exact matches
Abinadi, Odds are that you are a Mormon because your parents were Mormons and you were taught as a child that it was the correct religion by adult authority figures and most people you knew held the same beliefs, just as ancient Greek children were taught that the
source lightening was Zeus hurling bolts
of lightning from Mt. Olympus.
Hand - beaded in collaboration with Navajo artisans using traditional techniques and materials
sourced in New Mexico, these one -
of - a-kind pieces «evoke the humbling, starry expanse
of space or the awe - inspiring power
of a sudden
lightning storm.»
In a lawsuit filed last year in Tampa federal court by Ganis against
Lightning ownership, management and former team lawyer David LeFevre, Okubo is described by one potential Japanese
source of financing for Tampa Bay as a «gangster.»
Nature's original power
source, a
lightning bolt, contains up to a billion volts
of electricity.
An essential
source of summer rain for crops, these storms also pose a potential hazard due to excessive rainfall and
lightning.
Since Thornton's and his colleagues» study was published, Ilan Koren and Orit Altaratz at the Weizmann Institute
of Science in Israel and colleagues have found, using the WWLLN, that more intense
lightning is connected with aerosol
sources over land.
While the exact mechanism for charging and for initiating
lightning within the Venusian clouds is not currently known (Yair 2012) it is nonetheless likely that cosmic ray ionization has an important role in this process as it is believed to be the primary
source of atmospheric ions at middle and low altitudes.
Although Solar radiation and
lightning (which has been detected by the ESA's Venus Express probe in 2007) should be producing large amounts
of carbon monoxide (CO), the gas was found to be scarce, as if something was removing it (such as hydrogenogens, diverse bacteria and archaea that grow anaerobically utilizing CO as their sole carbon
source and water as an electron acceptor to produce carbon dioxide and molecular hydrogen as waste products).
Some researchers have suggested a repeating, pulsed heat
source, such as
lightning bolts, but no consensus has been reached on the feasibility
of generating
lightning in the solar nebula.141
After many attempts to replicate its successes in new games (infamously,
Lightning was born from a request from Motomu Toriyama to Tetsuya Nomura to design «a female version
of Cloud»), Square Enix is finally actually returning to the
source of that success.
It's Héctor who is the
source of much
of «Coco's» humor, literally falling to pieces on several occasions and then awkwardly reassembling his wayward bones with
lightning speed.
Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 1 This document contains; - Electricity and matters - Electrified objects - Conductors and insulators -
Lightning and lightning rod - Discharging New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 2 This document contains; - Electric current, unit of electric current, measuring electric current - Voltage, unit of voltage, measuring voltage New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 3 This document contains; - Ohm's Law - Resistance and unit of resistance - Combinations of Resistors (Series and Parallel Combinations) New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 4 This document contains; - Source of Electricity (wet and dry cells, accumulators)- Combination of Batteries (series and parallel combinations) New Teachers can use this document as a lesso
Lightning and
lightning rod - Discharging New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 2 This document contains; - Electric current, unit of electric current, measuring electric current - Voltage, unit of voltage, measuring voltage New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 3 This document contains; - Ohm's Law - Resistance and unit of resistance - Combinations of Resistors (Series and Parallel Combinations) New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 4 This document contains; - Source of Electricity (wet and dry cells, accumulators)- Combination of Batteries (series and parallel combinations) New Teachers can use this document as a lesso
lightning rod - Discharging New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 2 This document contains; - Electric current, unit
of electric current, measuring electric current - Voltage, unit
of voltage, measuring voltage New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 3 This document contains; - Ohm's Law - Resistance and unit
of resistance - Combinations
of Resistors (Series and Parallel Combinations) New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan... Electricity and Electrostatics - Teachers Note — 4 This document contains; -
Source of Electricity (wet and dry cells, accumulators)- Combination
of Batteries (series and parallel combinations) New Teachers can use this document as a lesson plan...
Print edition: The print edition
of this title (ISBN 9781416605201) is NOT available direct from ASCD; it may be purchased through booksellers that work with Ingram's
Lightning Source distribution system, including most major retailers.
This would include both Author House and IUniverse, who currently use the same
Lightning Source / Ingram program as most
of the other POD / Subsidy / Vanity publishers.
The Year
of the Bird had been printed by
Lightning Source, a company that prints books on demand for Ingram Content Group, a large POD publisher and major book distributor.
Before self - publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing, Smashwords, Createspace,
Lightning Source and more became a possibility, there was one type
of publishing that was surrounded by stigma: «vanity publishing» or «subsidy publishing.»
For newcomers to my writing about publishing, let me point out that it spans the time from when
Lightning Source was king
of the roost to when CreateSpace became dominant for self publishers.
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.
I've been seeing a lot
of inquiries from people who believe it's no longer possible to use the same ISBN at both
Lightning Source and CreateSpace, and that my Plan B is therefore obsolete.
Finally, I'll either send out that last batch
of queries or start sprinting down that indie route (in that case, I'll probably go with
Lightning Source).
(The big three are probably Lulu, CreateSpace, and
Lightning Source, with Blurb anchoring the image - heavy end
of the self - pub spectrum.)
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.
And CreateSpace's regular customers have been able to get European distribution by signing up for the Bookstores option
of CreateSpace's Expanded Distribution Channel (EDC), an option that operates through
Lightning Source.
At the same time, I predict that they will make a deal with the printing part
of the organization to print all
of their titles, leaving
Lightning Source / Ingram without a chair when the music stops.
Here's a tip for anyone thinking
of using Lulu to POD... Lulu uses
Lightning Source to print their books for them, so it's cheaper for the author himself to go straight to LS and bypass the middleman.
Just two weeks after I reported that Ingram was trying to misdirect new self publishers away from
Lightning Source to IngramSpark, word comes that the policy
of the new accounts department has been tightened.
Lightning Source has announced new capabilities that signficantly expand the range
of books it can handle.
You can now print paperbacks
of your self - published books following a relatively easy format with CreateSpace or other printers such as Ingram Spark's
Lightning Source and Book Baby.
For many years now, the bugbear
of small book publishers working exclusively with
Lightning Source or its sister company IngramSpark has been poor availability listings on Amazon.
Example: Despite the fact that publisher control over discount has been a major draw for
Lightning Source, IngramSpark publishers are limited to a standard wholesale discount
of 55 %.
Since the majority
of all POD sales are to Amazon, unless
Lightning Source is Amazon's printer, they will be hit the hardest and be back where they were before Ingram changed their policy towards small publishers.
• If your print service scans bound books but not loose pages
of hard copy — as is the case, for instance, with
Lightning Source — it may accept pages you bind at a copy shop.
However, Ingram Spark, by virtue
of not being Amazon, will not carry that stigma, and
Lightning Source, Ingram's current POD publishing arm, doesn't either.