Lightning Source On-Demand Book Manufacturing: Keeping Books the Environment Alive Rob Clements Sales Consultant, C

1.  Lightning Source On-Demand Book Manufacturing: Keeping Books & the Environment Alive Rob Clements Sales Consultant, Canada

2. 2 A bit about Lightning Source Founded in 1997 500,000+ titles are stored in our Digital Library 50,000,000+ books printed globally “One-at-a-time” Digital and offset printing for complete supply chain management Average print run is 1.8 copies Global Operation LaVergne, TN Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Allentown, PA 5,000 Publishing Partners 1.2 million books printed per month

3. 3 POD – What’s that all about? POD helps you optimize inventory management using the most effective print and distribution models in a globally distributed network Or…. Print Book, Try and Sell Book Becomes Sell Book First, Print Book Next

4. 4 Key Advantages of a POD Model Reduced risk – print it when you get a sale rather than print it and put it in a warehouse Reduced capital requirements Eliminate stock write offs Environmental Advantages Speed and certainty of supply Print in market – virtual not physical exporting Print in any language Print in larger print for the visually impaired

5. 5 The Models Direct to Publisher Publisher book orders are printed and shipped to any location in any quantity Manufacture & Distribution Titles are sold through a network of distribution partners including Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon.com (and other Amazon international sites), Barnes & Noble, Bertrams, Gardners and others Offset Complete life cycle manufacturing

6. 6 Helping Publishers be Green It is not what we do, but rather what we allow our customers to do, that is important. POD – helps publishers be green.

7. 7 Is POD really green? YES! Lightning POD allows: Publishers to print only what they need – No waste! Overstocks, Overruns, Pulping, potentially wasted raw materials and returns are minimized or disappear Publishers to have assurance about the environmental soundness of the materials their books are made of Paper/Forest certification schemes - certified mills, suppliers and materials Publishers a Distributed Print Option Using a globally distributed network, books are printed at the location nearest to the order

8. 8 Papers and Certifications POD…helping our publishers be green. All paper is sourced from COC (Chain of Custody) suppliers and mills All papers are individually or dually: FSC SFI PEFC Green-e certified Some papers carry post consumer waste (PCW) content Some papers are manufactured using alternate eco-friendly power sources Xpedex - first paper supplier in the US to receive for FSC and SFI certificationsXpedex - first paper supplier in the US to receive for FSC and SFI certifications

9. 9 Distributed Print One file serves a globally distributed network Books are printed at the plant closest to the order LaVergne, TN, Allentown, PA , Milton Keynes, UK Pacific Rim expansion to be announced Eliminate costly inventory costs, transfers and freight Less transportation and conservation of fossil fuels No pulping – manufacture only what is needed or what is ordered

10. 10 Who uses Lightning Source? A SNAPSHOT: University Presses – Cambridge, Oxford, Penn State, Princeton, Yale, Rutgers, LSU STM / PTR Publishers – Wiley, Springer, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, Information Age Academic Publishers - Taylor & Francis, Palgrave, Continuum, Sage Educational Publishers – Pearson, Key Curriculum Associations/ Non-profit Organizations – AMACOM, Naval & Military Press, Royal Society of Chemistry, IWA Publishing, Council on Foreign Relations Author Services Companies – Authorhouse, iUniverse, LuLu, Xlibris General Trade Publishers Little Brown, Harper Collins, Random House, Simon & Schuster, Perseus, Hachette, St. Martin’s, Kensington, FSG, Harcourt Religious Publishers – Thomas Nelson, Xulon, Presbyterian Publishing, United Methodist, Eerdmans Publishing, Augsburg Fortress Micro Publishers – New Concepts, Libros en Red, Rosetta, Holy Fire, TRIAD, James Rock

11. 11 Lightning POD has…. Allowed books to be kept alive forever Allowed books to be brought back from the dead Allowed books to be published that would never have made it Allowed new publishing models to emerge and flourish Allowed publishers to build upon their green initiatives Printed and delivered books faster than ever before Replaced warehouses full of stock – virtually Created the strongest distribution channel on the planet Allowed millions of people to buy the books that they want Realized £/$m of sales for publishers that would have been lost

12. 12 Rob Clements Sales Consultant, Canada Rob.clements@lightningsource.com www.lightningsource.com