Ingram Book Group - www.ingrambook.com
   Ingram is the world’s biggest book distributor, feeding dozens of thousands of physical and virtual bookstores around the world. Ingram stocks titles from a limited number of publishers, selected on the basis of quality and efficiency criteria. Stocked titles may be published traditionally as well as through on-demand publishing. It also handles orders in the POD system from all the retailers that have access to its catalogues.
   Ingram started business in the book industry in 1964 and has become the world leader due to the innovative distribution systems it has implemented and developed. Since the 1990s, alongside Internet expansion, Ingram succeeded in developing a highly efficient POD distribution and marketing system having a wide appeal internationally, through which it maintains its top position among book distributors.
   Ingram has over 2000 employees, works with over 43,000 publishers around the world, and supplies over 30,000 customers, retailers, and wholesalers.

   Amazon - www.amazon.com
   Amazon.com is the giant of virtual bookstores. With over 14,000 employees, average weekly traffic of more than 1 million visitors (on its main website alone), and more than 2 millions titles stocked, Amazon earned a gross income of US$11.5 billions in 2006. Over time, the company has diversified the palette of products its sells by adding electronic books, software, DVDs, electronic products, and much more.
   Amazon has a very functional system for listing books, which includes review sections, comments with ratings from readers, promotional tools inside and outside the website, publisher insertions, the search-inside program (through which readers can view pages from listed books without being able to copy them), as well as a strong affiliate system (anyone can create an affiliate account through which to distribute Amazon titles, with no need to create their own stock or take part in delivery). 
   Amazon also operates through other six international websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, and China: www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.joyo.com.

   Abebooks - www.abebooks.com 
   AbeBooks.com is the world’s largest online marketplace for books, with over 70 million new, used, rare, and out-of-print titles listed for sale by more than 13,000 independent booksellers from around the world. AbeBooks has millions of registered customers who collectively purchase up to 25,000 books a day from its 5 global websites: www.AbeBooks.com, www.AbeBooks.co.uk, www.AbeBooks.de, www.AbeBooks.fr and www.Iberlibro.com. A true internet success story, AbeBooks.com has been selling books online since 1996, and is a private company based in Victoria, BC Canada, with offices in Germany and Spain. 

   Alibris - www.alibris.com
   Alibris is a top online destination for new and used books, as well as rare and out-of-print books. They connect people who love books, music, and movies to the best independent sellers from 45 countries around the world. Their proprietary technology and advanced logistics allow them to offer over 60 million used, new, and out-of-print books to consumers, libraries, and retailers, which include Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Borders, and Chapters/Indigo. Founded in 1998 and acquired by Oak Hill Capital Partners in 2006, Deloitte named Alibris a "Fast 50" and a "Technology Fast 500" growth business in 2005. Alibris also operates in UK through their website www.alibris.co.uk. 

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   Besides the basic distribution ensured by partnership with Ingram and collaboration with other distributors in the U.S. and U.K., together with listings on the major retailers' websites, INFAROM does its own marketing to promote its titles. Our campaigns use both traditional and online tools to target communities with specific interests and retailers specializing in certain editorial fields.
   For a title considered to have special sales potential, additional campaigns at the local level are run (through direct marketing to retailers), as well as campaigns for licensing translation rights. Respective titles can be also shown at major international book fairs (in Frankfurt, London, Prague, Tokyo, and other book fairs). Such campaigns require additional funds, which can be augmented by the author's contribution as result of negotiating and signing a publicity contract. These additional campaigns are projected from the moment of observing a regular and satisfactory sales volume for a respective title.

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   Also for titles published in an author's own language, Ingram ensures international distribution. Titles are listed in distributors' catalogues in the section titled books in ... (the language book is edited in), and potential customers come from the communities of the respective language in the U.S. and Europe. Those titles are also listed on Amazon and its affiliate websites. See the section titled Non-English publishing.
   The author may provide local distribution on his or her own through the service called direct order, which allows the author to order copies of his or her own titles in any quantity at cost price (printing plus shipping costs).

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   During the period covered by the publishing contract, the author is encouraged and counseled to run his or her own online marketing campaign to promote a book and grow sales for the benefit of both author and publisher, regardless of whether the book is an English title or a title in the author's own language. The POD system allows this author participation in the marketing of his or her titles, and this has a visible effect on book sales (see the section titled Resources).