ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <TITLE>Lightning Source - The Digital Content Connection</TITLE> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Keywords" CONTENT="LightningSource,Lightning,LighteningSource,Lightening,LightningPrint,Booksellers,Book,Books,Book Sales,Publishers,Publishing,Publish,Print on demand,Print-on-demand,Book printing,Electronic books,Electronic book,Ebooks,E-books,Ebook,Ingram,ingrambook,Digital publishing,Digital rights management,e-publishing,ePublishing,electronic publishing,digital fulfillment,on demand printing,on-demand printing,on demand,Lightening Print,Digital fulfillment systems,On-line bookselling,Versa Ware,Digital Content Management,Microsoft Reader,EContent,E-content,iUniverse,BookSense,Alibris,iPage,Titles at Ingram,Sprout,SoftLock,GlassBook,MesaView,NetLibrary,Reciprocal,Palm, Peanut Press,Replica"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Description" CONTENT="LightningSource - Provides a full suite of digital publishing services from e-books and 'on-demand' printing to digital rights management for publishers, booksellers and libraries."> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" vlink="#be9700" link="red"> <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> <!-- A { text-decoration:none; } a:active { color:red; text-decoration:none; } a:link { color:red; text-decoration:none; } a:visited { color:red; text-decoration:none; } a:hover { color:red; text-decoration:none;} a.whiteBG:active { color:red; text-decoration:none; } a.whiteBG:link { color:red; text-decoration:none; } a.whiteBG:visited { color:red; text-decoration:none; } a.whiteBG:hover { color:red; text-decoration:none; } --> </STYLE> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15"> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="4"> <b> NEWS RELEASE </b> <br> <!-- DATE --> Thursday, May 18th, 2006 <!-- ---- --> <br>&nbsp; </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="60%"> <font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2"> <i> CONTACTS: </i> <br> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2"> <b>Lightning Source</b><br> Keel Hunt<br> 615-321-3110<br> <a href=mailto:keel@tsgnashville.com>keel@tsgnashville.com</a><br><br> </font> </td> <td valign="top" align="right"> <IMG alt="Lightning Source" src="/images/news/logo2.gif" border=0 > </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2> <IMG height=5 src="images/orange_line.gif" width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="3"> <b><u><center> <!-- HEADLINE --> Lightning Source Inc. Announces Demand-Driven Color Book Manufacturing <!-- ---- --> </center></u></b> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2"> <p style="text-align:justify"> <!-- BODY --> LaVergne, TN - <b>Lightning Source Inc.</b>, the leading provider of demand-driven book manufacturing and distribution solutions to the book industry, announced today it will begin the manufacture of full-color on-demand books in August of this year. <br><br> &quot;After two years of development and testing, we are delighted to offer color-interior books printed in our United States facility, and the quality is absolutely incredible,&quot; said <b>J. Kirby Best</b>, President and CEO of Lightning Source Inc. <br><br> &quot;We look forward to adding color to our wide array of solutions that our 4,300-plus publishing partners use every day.&quot; <br><br> In response to requests from publishers, Lightning Source has created a unique and affordable process option to include color interior pages within the traditional on-demand timeframe - where books are manufactured in days, not weeks or months. <br><br> &quot;The introduction of a genuine print on demand solution for color books takes Lightning's service offerings to publishers to a new level,&quot; said <b>David Taylor</b>, Senior Vice President of Global Sales for Lightning Source. &quot;Single copy color on demand is here.&quot; <br><br> Printing over 1,000,000 books per month, Lightning Source has become &quot;the authority&quot; in the black-and-white on-demand book manufacturing market. After two years of research and development, and in keeping with the tradition of high-quality books which the publishing community has come to expect from Lightning Source, the company will begin full production of color books at its U.S. facility in LaVergne, Tennessee, in August. The new capability will be available at Lightning s printing facility in the United Kingdom in early 2007. <br><br> Mr. Taylor encouraged any publisher wanting more information about color book manufacturing to contact a Lightning Source sales representative. <br><br> ABOUT LIGHTNING SOURCE <br> Lightning Source Inc., a subsidiary of Ingram Industries Inc., provides a comprehensive suite of demand-driven publishing solutions for publishers. The company is revolutionizing the options available to the industry in the storage, management, and distribution of digital content. Lightning Source stores books and other information electronically and delivers them &quot;on demand&quot; in either traditional printed format or as e-Books in response to orders from booksellers, librarians, and publishers. Lightning Source has printed over 30,000,000 books for over 4,300 publishers around the world. For more information, visit our website at <a href="http://www.lightningsource.com" target=_blank>www.lightningsource.com</a>. <!-- ---- --> </P> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="5"> <center> *&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;* </center> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular" size="2"> <i> <P align=center class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify" size="1"> The Lightning Source name, corresponding logos, taglines and other service marks identifying Lightning Source and its services are the proprietary marks of Lightning Source Inc. and must be represented accordingly. <br> <br> Other products and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. <br> <br> <!-- NON-LSI TRADEMARKS --> <!-- ---- --> <br>&nbsp; </span></STRONG></EM> </P> </i> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>