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What is P.O.D. and how does it work?
We offer a print and distribution model for practically every need, every title and every situation. Because these are complete vertical integration models, a single communication drives the production process all the way to order fulfillment. Provide us with the quantity and the destination and well handle all the necessary details.
Print to Order
Invented by our printer, we turn the traditional model upside down by selling titles on your behalf, sending your books to our distribution channel, and paying you the wholesale price (less printing). Using ISBNs of your titles as identifiers, we print as orders are received from wholesalers, retailers or consumers so youre never out of stock of a desired book.
Quarterly you receive a statement of inventory activity and a check that reflects the number of books sold. In essence, you are compensated for the use of your copyrighted content with virtually no effort required on your part.
A choice of distribution channels
Ingram Distribution Channel
Using the distribution channel, your book always appears as in stock and available to all Ingram customers - over 30,000 wholesalers, retailers and booksellers in over 100 countries. Your book is ready for shipment in 12 hours or less.
Other Distribution Channels
We maintain relationships with the most comprehensive portfolio of booksellers serving consumers today as is evidenced by the list below. The practices of individual wholesalers and retailers determine whether your titles show as in stock. Depending on established contractual agreements, your paperbacks are ready to ship within 2 to 5 days. hardbacks are available 5 days in the US and up to 8 days in the UK
Our Distribution Partners:
US:
· Ingram
· Amazon.com
· Baker & Taylor
· Barnes & Noble
· NACSCORP
UK:
· Amazon.co.uk (retailer)
· Bertrams (wholesaler)
· Blackwell (library supplier)
· Book Depository (Amazon Marketplace)
· Coutts (library supplier)
· Dawson (library supplier)
· Gardners (wholesaler)
· Mallory International (wholesaler)
· Paperback Bookshop (Amazon Marketplace)
Currently housing 500,000 titles with instant access to each one, the digital warehouse is a technological wonder. Instead of filling your warehouse (or garage) and flooding the marketplace with books that may never sell, print only what is needed to meet your current demand-whether that's a single book or 10,000.
Once an order is placed, we have all the electronic data necessary to print and deliver the book to its intended destination. The distance between book-maker and book-reader has never been shorter. This is the beauty of Print On Demand (P.O.D.)
On a typical day, we add 500 titles to our digital warehouse, manufacture more than 50,000 books, and fulfill 27,000 orders.
Once entered into our system, your titles are ready to start generating profits on every sale and information about your titles enters the catalogs of the world's largest distribution channel of wholesalers, retailers and booksellers.
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