Some of you may know that IngramSpark recently sent a newsletter to its customers warning that "some online retailers are reevaluating their ordering practices as they relate to non-returnable books .

The latest in my ongoing saga to actually begin pre-release publicity for my publishing company's prestige project: So, after Ingram removed the book from distribution in response to my asking them to

An LSI update under the "Expand Your Reach" button on the welcome screen presents an option to sign up for Target store distribution. Searching the forum here for responses to this - but not seeing an

Considering everybody's frustrations, I think at least a few people will find reading this gratifying: -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Receive a FREE Gift! Switch to IngramSpark Today

Hi — Ingram is nudging me (and probably not just me) to switch to Ingram Spark. I have free setup already with Ingram. What are the pros and cons? They told me I have to consent to 30/35 percent disco

I recently published the second edition of one of our books. I handled it as we have handled second editions before (the metadata identifies it as a second edition, and we sent a support request askin

Greetings all. We have not heard from our LSI rep in 10 days. We started getting concerned so I emailed 3 other people from LSI/Ingram. Nobody has responded. I'm wondering if our emails aren't getting

Hi Aaron and All, I may have missed a response on this, so I'd like to revisit it. (See original comments below.) Between last September and now, I just finished and published a novel on Amazon KDP. H

When updating metadata, title description, etc., at LSI, how long is it these days until the changes appear on Amazon? I recall it was entirely automatic, but does Amazon stick with an old title descr

Greetings all, Though it's long been an issue on Amazon Germany for my titles, only recently has Amazon US begun to massively diverge from my selected pricing at LSI and begin gouging customers (charg

Good morning, everybody. LSI confirmed yesterday (several of their employees) that they have not received any emails from us in 10 days (it's 11 days now). Our IT folks found no problems with our outg

Something fun: talking book covers! https://www.hiddengemsbooks.com/coverspeak/ Aaron

Marilyn Ross was one of my first mentors and I acknowledged her in the recent release of my “The Frugal Editor” in its third edtion. Wahhhh. Her email bounced and I had no luck with a Google search. D

Has anyone had any success with LSI's "Look inside the Book" option? I ticked in on a couple of our most recent books, but it does not appear to have worked. I can go back to generating and uploading

As I mentioned on another thread, Ignite is also moving to the model of charging the catalog fee only for the actual books that are sold through wholesale channels, and its shipping to a flat rate of

Some of my titles are "currently unavailable" on a few of the Amazon websites. I used to have links on my website to Amazon for each of my books. Today I updated my website and there are now links to

Wowza! Lots of changes announced at IngramSpark today (not sure which things affect Lightning). No setup fees (which they announced in the newsletter last week), new shipping prices, and other new fee

Hi all, I'm having a really frustrating problem with Lightning Source right now, and I'm wondering if I'm the only one. The first two books in my business' prestige project (the official history of th

I've been using Quickbooks desktop software for years -- decades, actually -- for my micro press as well as clinical practice and home bank accounts. As you probably know, Quickbooks/Intuit is ending

My emails to the advertised LSI addresses were not replied to. -- Larry Yudelson Editorial Director Ben Yehuda Press http://www.BenYehudaPress.com