Ingram Books--The Speed of Lightning

So, how does the process work?

"The publisher can send a title as either hard copy or in digital form," explains Brewster. "If it's a hard copy, we scan it. At that point, the book can be printed at any time.

"The bookseller would then order a book through Ingram; Ingram would pass the order to us that night; and we'd produce [the books] the next day and deliver them to the Ingram warehouse to be shipped to the next bookseller."