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"Lightning Source gives the publishing community options to print books in any quantity, 1-10,000, and provides its customers access to the most comprehensive bookselling channel in the industry in both the United States and the United Kingdom including distribution partners Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Gardners, Bertrams and others."

Spam? --91.84.84.234 (talk) 21:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so. Who are their nearest competitors, and how comprehensive are those comeptitors' distributions channels? There are a load of "self-publishing" print-on-demand companies that usually only sell direct, and there are some conglomerates like CPI that assemble clusters of companies with different niche skils but limited integration (with each other and with the supply chain). Amazon have Booksurge, but that's traditionally been amazon-only.

LS have a single-point-access system that handles POD and traditional litho, and distributes through just about every online and bricks-and-mortar bookshop, so in those terms, "most comprehensive" seems like a fair description. What they lack is some of the more the more specialist "hand-crafted" print options like colour inserts, special papers, folded dustjackets and specialist inks (and special effects like shaped embossing and cutouts) that some of the more niche POD companies can do. ErkDemon (talk) 20:32, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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