Digital Full Color Opens New Book Markets
According to Kirby Best, Lightning Source president and CEO, sales to the “Big 10” in publishing grew from 20 percent to 59 percent of total sales in the last four years. This signals that mainstream publishing has integrated digital manufacturing into its supply chain. Now that the U.S. Court of Appeals has lifted the cloud hanging over digital book-at-a-time manufacturing and reversed the ruling against Lightning Source and Xerox in the On Demand Machine Corp. patent infringement suit, new investment and expansion capital is likely to fuel the growth of suppliers and capacity.
- Companies:
- Amazon.com
- Author House
- Book Expo America
- BookSurge
- Consortium
- Cyber-Read
- Deharts
- Digital Pulp Publishing
- Edwards Brothers
- Fiction-Wise
- Fidlar Doubleday Inc.
- IBM Corporation
- Ingram Industries Inc.
- Integrated Book Technology
- IUniverse
- Lightning Source Inc.
- Lulu.com
- NetLibrary
- Overdrive Inc.
- PMA
- RR Donnelley
- Xerox Corp.
- XLibris
Eugene G. Schwartz is editor at large for ForeWord Reviews, an industry observer and an occasional columnist for Book Business magazine. In an earlier career, he was in the printing business and held production management positions at Random House, Prentice-Hall/Goodyear and CRM Books/Psychology Today. A former PMA (IBPA) board member, he has headed his own publishing consultancy, Consortium House. He is also Co-Founder of Worthy Shorts Inc., a development stage online private press and publication service for professionals as well as an online back office publication service for publishers and associations. He is on the Publishing Business Conference and Expo Advisory Board.