LAVERGNE, TENNESSEE – The University of Nebraska Press has selected Lightning Source Inc. to print and distribute two books by the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.

The University of Nebraska Press is a leading academic press with a long standing dedication of making available the best literature from around the world. Lightning Source Inc. is the leading provider of demand-based book manufacturing and distribution solutions to the publishing industry.

At the Frankfurt Book Fair this week (October 15-19) the University of Nebraska Press will exhibit two of Le Clézio’s titles through its European distributor Combined Academic Publishers, Ltd. Please visit stand 8.0 B935 to view these titles.

“They didn’t just hype what they could do for us – they proved it,” said Rhonda Winchell, Marketing Manager, University of Nebraska Press. “Three days after the Nobel Prize was announced we had books on the way to distributors in Europe and the U.S.”

“Lightning Source demonstrated their publishing prowess and raised the bar on what defines a great business partnership,” Ms. Winchell continued. “Their team was responsive and enabled us to meet worldwide market demands quickly and economically.”

With nearly 200 translated titles currently in print from five different languages, the University of Nebraska Press is one of the largest, most active American publishers of translated works. Two Le Clézio titles, The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts (ISBN 978-0-8032-8007-6) and Onitsha (ISBN 978-0-8032-7966-7), both published in English, are enjoying resurrected demand since the Nobel announcement.

David Taylor, President of Lightning Source, said the company is providing the University of Nebraska Press the tools they need to print books at the plant nearest the delivery location, allowing books to be available and reach their destination expeditiously. Using on-demand solutions, the press is replenishing inventory as demand warrants, fulfilling book orders direct to consumers and utilizing the Lightning Source distribution channel to make the books available to the widest available audience.

“By utilizing Lightning Source print-on-demand for these important Nobel Award winning works,” Mr. Taylor explained. “The University of Nebraska is able to build upon its long standing reputation of literary excellence, allowing important titles to be available for all. The press was able to employ a distributed print model, printing books on both sides of the world and delivering books to their destination in record time.

Through our collaborative efforts, Lightning Source and the Ingram family of companies deliver to the publishing industry the digital solutions they will need to succeed in publishing in the coming years,” he said.