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Lightning Source is a subsidiary of Ingram Industries Inc., and a sister company to leading U.S. book wholesaler Ingram Book Group. They are the leading printer and distributor of print on demand books. The company was originally conceived and created in 1997 as Lightning Print Inc. They have headquarters located in LaVergne, Tennessee, and their UK operations are based in Milton Keynes. Lightning Source has printed over 41,000,000 books for over 5,000 publishers around the world. The Lightning Source digital library holds over 500,000 books. Lightning Source gives the publishing community options to print books in any quantity, 1-10,000, and provides its customers access to the most comprehensive bookselling channel in the industry in both the United States and the United Kingdom including distribution partners Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Gardners, Bertrams and others. The company lost a $15 million patent lawsuit in 2004 relating to their use of a print... full article at wikipedia

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