Daniels says that both Microsoft and Ingram are communicating with participating publishers to inform them of the transition. “We will send out a communication to publishers that will tell them how the process is going to work to return [their digital] files [to them],” he says. “We’re talking … tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of titles that need to be managed and pushed back out to 1,100 different publishers. So it’s a process that will take up to several months to get all the files returned and sorted in a way that they will not be lost. That’s the most important thing: … If the publisher wants to retrieve those files, we want to make sure that they’re available. So we’re managing that process. That’s the main thing we’re trying to do.”
- Companies:
- Ingram Book Group
- Microsoft Corp.