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When you format your book for Lightning Source, you ensure that your book is printed and presented in the optimal manner for Ingram’s print-on-demand service. Formatting specifically for Lightning Source makes it a smoother process when it comes to printing your book, and also ensures high-quality results. This includes accurate binding, clear text and images, and overall professional appeal.

Our service takes into account all of the specifications provided by Lightning Source to deliver a perfectly formatted book. This involves managing aspects such as trim size, margins, spine width, and cover layout. We stay updated with Lightning Source’s format requirements and apply them addressedly to provide you with a book ready for printing. Our team’s experience and understanding of Lightning Source’s needs allow us to deliver a service specifically tailored for their print-on-demand process.

Beyond just adhering to Lightning Source’s specific requirements, we also focus on enhancing the visual quality and readability of your book. We provide consultation on internally designing, fonts, paragraph styling, and image placement to ensure professional appearance and improved readability. We also assist with cover design advice to make your book appealing. All these enhancements aim to make your book stand out when printed through Lightning Source.

While Ingram offers book formatting for Lightning Source, using our independent service can provide faster turn-around times and potentially lower costs. This is because our expert team specializes in Lightning Source formatting and has developed efficient processes to do it more quickly without compromising on quality. This efficiency can also transfer to cost savings for you. Additionally, our independent service enables us to provide more personalized attention to each project, something that you might not get when using a large company’s in-house service.

Our service is designed to be highly responsive and adaptive. If any revisions are needed for your book to comply with Lightning Source’s standards, our team will address these promptly. As part of our service, we include a reasonable number of revision rounds to ensure that the final layout meets your expectations and complies with Lightning Source’s rules. We strive to make this process as smooth as possible and aim to turn around any necessary edits quickly. We understand the importance of achieving a well-formatted book that aligns with Lightning Source’s requirements, so you can rest assured that we’ll work diligently to get it right.