Lightning Source

Lightning Source Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryPrinting
Ebooks
Founded1996
Headquarters
La Vergne, Tennessee
,
United States
Key people
David Taylor, president
ProductsBooks, wholesale and retail distribution
Websitewww.lightningsource.com

Lightning Source is a printer and distributor of print-on-demand books.[1] The company is a business unit of Ingram Content Group. Originally incorporated in 1996 as Lightning Print Inc., the company is headquartered in La Vergne, Tennessee, United States. Its UK operations are based in Milton Keynes. They also have operations in Maurepas, France and Melbourne, Australia.

IngramSpark is a service operated by Lightning Source to cater for the needs of independent publishers and authors. Since it launched in 2013, IngramSpark has registered more than 7 million books, with 4,000 new books added each day.[2]

  1. ^ Dougherty, William C. (March 2009). "Print on Demand: What Librarians Should Know". The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 35 (2): 184–186. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2009.01.006.
  2. ^ Stead, Kate (2018-03-05). "IngramSpark Interview: Answers to your Self-Publishing Questions". Old Mate Media. Retrieved November 17, 2018.