This week I had the pleasure of visiting Ingram’s UK headquarters which is also their print and distribution facility in Milton Keynes (just up the road from Amazon). Zaccmedia uses their facilities for most of our book titles. Ingram are the world’s largest book distributor, a mantle earned by its immense presence in the US marketplace. They work with some of the biggest book publishers in the business, providing backlist titles for Penguin, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and giant academic book publisher, Pearson, amongst many others. Books going back to the 17th century are made available to the world through its trade quality print on demand technology. Putting old and often out of copyright information back into circulation is often referred to as content aggregation, and is another new business born out of Ingram’s print service. Read more