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New Zealand is a beautiful country that is at the end of the line in the global English-language book supply chain

February 7, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Quite aside from being stunningly beautiful from top to bottom, New Zealand is unique, a nation of 4-1/2 million English speakers that is not on the way to anyplace else. When you go to New Zealand, you go on purpose. And you arrive on a large boat or a large plane, not by some improvised […]

Filed Under: eBooks, General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Anne Kennedy, Baker & Taylor, HarperCollins, Ingram, Joan MacKenzie, Martha Moran, New Zealand, Penguin Random House, Whitcoulls

After seeing Lightning Australia and a couple of publishers, and learning a few things

January 23, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Ingram’s Lightning Print operation outside of Melbourne isn’t massive (at least not yet), but it sure has a lot of capabilities. It can deliver hardbacks as well as paperbacks, color as well as just black, and pretty much an infinite number of trim sizes. It’s built for true POD, meaning runs of one copy, but […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Self-Publishing, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: Booktopia, Ingram, Ingram Spark, Lighting Print, Lightning Source, Tony Nash

We’ll see how what I actually learn compares to what I expect to find out

January 19, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

Australia and New Zealand have always been the far outposts of the English-speaking territories for book publishers based in New York and London. But the logistics and economics of managing inventory are very difficult. These countries are across long seas from where US and UK publishers normally warehouse their books. Whatever copies are shipped to […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Global, Licensing and Rights, New Models, Print-On-Demand, rights, Supply-Chain, Technology Tagged With: Australia, Ingram, John Ingram, Lightning Print, Lightning Source, Melbourne, New Zealand

The best ways to use Lightning are not widely employed yet 20 years in

November 28, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The 20th anniversary of Lightning Source, the digital service provided by Ingram that supplies both printed-on-demand books and ebook file distribution services for publishers, was recently noted in a tribute piece in Publishers Weekly. The growth of the file repository at Lightning was reported to have reached 15 million titles. Those represent books that might […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Print-On-Demand, Supply-Chain Tagged With: "Just in case" inventory, "Just in time" inventory, ARCs, Ingram Content Companies, Lightning Print, Lightning Source, Steve Zacharius

Imprint consolidation at big houses is a sign of changed times

October 25, 2018 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

I had reason to learn recently that Ingram has 16 million individual titles loaded in their Lightning Source database ready to be delivered as a bound book to you within 24 hours, if not sooner. So every book coming into the world today is competing against 16 million other books that you might buy. That […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Marketing, New Models, Scale, Supply-Chain, Vertical Tagged With: "Little Random", Amazon, Atria, Cato Institute, CreateSpace, Crown, Gallery, Ingram Spark, Kindle, Lightning Source, Macmillan, Random House, Simon & Schuster, St. Martin's Press, Tom McCormack, Touchstone

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