What are you missing?
For publishers, the world is getting bigger every day—and more complicated. The Ingram family of companies is uniquely positioned to help publishers digitize, manage, store and distribute their content to the broadest possible global market.
- Is your content everywhere it could be?
- In every possible format?
- Are you selling your books to 56,000 retail stores and libraries worldwide?
- Are you accessible to 148 million library patrons?
We think you could be selling more books—and Ingram can help you do it. Talk to an INGRAM representative about how we can help you succeed.
Education Solutions
VitalSource provides technologies and services to publishers that enable a variety of digital content strategies for the academic market. The foundation is VitalSource Bookshelf, the most advanced eBook software available—a portable, highly interactive eBook format with a powerful set of tools designed specifically for academic environments.
Ingram Library Services is committed to providing a vast array of products and services to meet the needs of public, school, and college libraries, including books, media, shelf-ready processing, and customized collection development programs. We offer fast delivery, industry-leading fill rates, and the world’s largest selection of books.
Coutts Information Services serves the global academic library market as a full-service provider of books and electronic content from publishers and distributors worldwide. We partner with publishers, small presses, institutions, and associations to provide our customers with the most comprehensive title base available. OASIS (Online Acquisition and Selection Information Service) is the user interface to our bibliographic database of five million records. Customers can use a single online source to search, select and order, manage approval and new-title plans and standing orders, as well as review and select eBooks.
Institutional Solutions
MyiLibrary delivers eBook content online for academic, medical, professional, and corporate libraries the world over. With nearly 100,000 titles available covering all major disciplines, MyiLibrary is the most comprehensive eContent platform on the market today.
MyiLibrary Audiobooks is part of the MyiLibrary suite of products. Ingram offers audio versions of many books to library customers in a simple, versatile format. For more information on downloadable audio offerings, e-mail us at sales@myilibrary.com
Coutts Information Services serves the global academic library market as a full-service provider of books and electronic content from publishers and distributors worldwide. We partner with publishers, small presses, institutions, and associations to provide our customers with the most comprehensive title base available. OASIS (Online Acquisition and Selection Information Service) is the user interface to our bibliographic database of five million records. Customers can use a single online source to search, select and order, manage approval and new-title plans and standing orders, as well as review and select eBooks.
Retail Solutions
Ingram Digital’s Search and Discover services power the “Look Inside” and “Find Inside the Book” capabilities for online retailers as well as publishers’ and authors’ web sites. Ingram Digital’s widget technologies provide publishers with the tools needed to promote products on blogs, social networks, and other web sites to activate viral marketing opportunities for their content.
Audio download solutions
Ingram has developed an innovative range of audio download solutions that enable retailers to distribute spoken word audio content to customers in a simple, versatile format. This unique format supports audio playback on a range of computers and hand-held devices without requiring proprietary hardware, Internet connectivity, or server synchronization.
eBook download solutions
Everyone in the publishing world faces the challenge of operating in the new digital arena while controlling costs, protecting revenue streams, and finding new market opportunities. Ingram provides over 110,000 active eBook titles from more than 1,000 publishers that are distributed across multiple retail channels in industry-leading, secure eBook formats.
Content Solutions
CoreSource is a secure asset management system that provides publishers with a platform to market and distribute content to the widest range of consumer buying points. Modular and scalable, CoreSource can work for any size publisher. Publishers can store, archive, repurpose, and manage digital content, metadata, and promotional materials via intelligent business integration capabilities as well a simple-to-use web interface. By allowing publishers to distribute content in any format, CoreSource enables syndication to trading partners, including the Ingram family of distribution companies and other sales and marketing channels of their choice.
Through an arrangement with Microsoft, Ingram is a full-service provider for Live Search Books. We scan over 250,000 books per year for publishers at essentially no cost to be included in Live Search Books as well as the Ingram Digital distribution channels and Lightning Source print-on-demand. For more information about participating in the Live Search Books program, e-mail Marcus.Woodburn@ingramdigital.com.
Print-on-demand Solutions
Market driven models: The most innovative on-demand print and distribution solution available in the publishing industry. When harnessed, publishers can revolutionize their supply chain by making any book available to the largest distribution channel of wholesalers and retailers worldwide. Lightning Source delivers high quality print on-demand books to customers on behalf of the publisher at astonishing speeds; making any book available and profitable throughout its life cycle.
Publisher driven models: Lightning Source services that integrate on-demand solutions seamlessly into the publisher's print and distribution model. We will deliver books to the publisher and on behalf of the publisher, to retailers, consumers and warehouses in a format best suited to the life cycle of the book; making cost effective books always available, never out of stock and never missing a sale
Fee-Based Sales and Distribution Services
Ingram Publisher Services
For a publisher, getting a title to market in a comprehensive, efficient, and cost-effective manner is crucial to business success. The publisher’s distribution partner should be an expert in logistics, sales, title marketing, and account management. Ingram Publisher Services offers that expertise, backed by the power and strength of Ingram – a name synonymous with book distribution – to support publishers in their business. Ingram Publisher Services takes the time to understand each unique business and create a customized package that will help maximize its potential and profitability. For more information, call 866-400-5351, or send an e-mail to acquisitions@ingrampublisherservices.com.
Wholesale Services
Ingram Book Company is the largest wholesale distributor in the world. The pivot point that powers all of the Ingram offerings, this distribution network connects publishers and their content—in all formats—to more than 56,000 retail and library customers worldwide.
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TalktoINGRAM.com is an entry into the comprehensive world of the INGRAM Content companies. In order to customize the perfect suite of solutions for your business, we have multiple product and service offerings. For your convenience, an INGRAM representative is standing by to answer your questions, and to talk through your specific needs. Email us at Marcus.Woodburn@ingramdigital.com
