Independent publishing
Eagle Lake Publishing is deeply committed to digital innovation. Our integrated approach combines many technologies to produce, market, and sell premium digital content in this fast-growing marketplace.
eBook services
eBooks are the fastest-growing part of our business, with the sale of digital products increasing exponentially each year. ELP's experience in the e-marketplace, industry-leading access to sales channels, expertise in both traditional and digital marketing, cutting-edge digital warehousing, Adobe Content Server DRM-protection software, and reporting services equip client publishers to take full advantage of every opportunity the market has to offer.
Access to the Digital Marketplace
ELP has a close relationship with all major eBook vendors, ensuring that client publishers can capture the full sales potential of the Apple, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Sony e-reader devices and stores, among others. ELP also works with more than 100 eBook affiliates and re-sellers, ensuring that client publishers have maximum exposure to the digital marketplace in the United States and around the world.
Digital Warehousing and Business Services
ELP publishers enjoy a streamlined eBook submission, conversion, warehousing, and business intelligence solution. The submission of a PDF is all that is needed to for a title to reach the digital marketplace: ELP handles the eBook file conversion, metadata creation, quality control, and vendor relations for all digital editions while answering any questions publishers may have along the way. ELP also utilizes the most trusted encryption software in the industry, Adobe Content Server, to apply DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection to every eBook file we distribute at no cost to our client publishers. After publication, our clients receive anytime access to their finished eBook files, which are stored on ELP's secure servers. IPG also offers an online reporting tool that keeps publishers apprised of the performance of their digital titles and allows them to analyze sales by factors including customer type and eBook format.
Print and eBook Marketing Services
ELP ensures that all client publishers have access to a host of print, online, and social media marketing initiatives to promote the sale of their digital editions. The successful sale of a digital title is tied to effective promotion of the print edition of that title. ELP's core competency in physical book distribution means that our client publishers get the best of both worlds.
Digital Printing & Print-on-demand services
Eagle Lake Publishing’s digital printing program offers more partners—and therefore more possibilities—than any other distributor. The high degree of choice allows us to create nuanced solutions for each publisher. Whether you are looking for a one-off digital print run to support an author tour, a stop-gap printing solution to keep sales flowing between offset runs, or need to maintain your zero-inventory, print-to-order business model, we have you covered.
Short Run Digital Printing
Small print jobs designed to keep your titles in stock without risking an offset print run
- Print-ready files are distributed to the short run digital printer(s) of your choice, where they are prepped and made ready for printing.
- ELP's sophisticated supply-chain system uses information about current title availability and rate of sale at major retailers to determine titles that are in danger of running out of stock.
- When replenishment is needed, stock is printed on-site or printed and then shipped to our distribution center. If an order comes in,ELP picks, packs, and ships it like any other title.
- Drop Shipment and ARC options: Need books fast? We work with you to efficiently print and deliver one-off print jobs you need anywhere in the world.
Print-On-Demand
Keep your titles available between print runs and/or low-stock situations
- Low stock situations can kill demand for new and developing titles. Millions are lost each year by publishers who cannot fulfill orders in time, resulting in vendors de-prioritizing the title in their ordering and search algorithms.
- If you find yourself out of stock between offset print runs, Print On Demand services can temporarily print to order so that your titles are always listed as "In Stock" at Amazon.com and / or major retailers connected to Ingram’s wholesale business
- Print On Demand does not eliminate the need for offset print runs – it provides a stop gap measure to ensure that immediate demand for your titles is met. In this program, ELP will continue reaching out to you for stock.
Inventory Free
A hassle-free way to keep your titles available
- Never worry about keeping you title in stock or managing your inventory – these programs will print only to firm orders for the life of your title.
- ELP offers inventory free programs with all our POD providers. Your titles print to order on a 2 day turn time.
- Ingram and Amazon services are specific to just their customers. Working with these programs can ensure that an “in stock” message is always showing on Ingram’s wholesaler site and Amazon.com.