Released on: May 29, 2008, 11:29 am

Press Release Author: Ingram Digital

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Press Release Summary: Ingram Digital announced that it is offering to transition
all participating Microsoft Live Search Books publishers into its Ingram Search and
Discover platform at no cost, enabling publishers to continue making their content
searchable and available to readers.

Press Release Body: Ingram Digital, an Ingram Content company focused on solutions
for digital content management, distribution and promotion, today announced that it
is offering to transition all participating Microsoft Live Search Books publishers
into its Ingram Search and Discover platform at no cost, enabling publishers to
continue making their content searchable and available to readers.
For those publishers who choose, Ingram will archive their Live Search Book files
following the closing of Live Search Books, giving them time and options to use
those files for future discovery, print-on-demand and e-book distribution.
During the partnership of the last year, the Ingram and Microsoft Live Search teams
have built a state of the art content ingestion and digitization center capable of
processing hundreds of thousands of books each year into digital forms that can be
utilized for a variety of search and discovery, print-on-demand and e-book formats.
Through this agreement, Ingram is offering Live Search Books publishers the
opportunity to continue their digitization plans and make their content available in
the Ingram Search and Discover platform.
Additionally, Ingram is offering publishers the opportunity to make the content
available in Lightning Source print-on-demand programs and Ingram Digital e-book
programs.
The Ingram Search and Discover platform enables booksellers to transform the online
book browsing experience into a richer one, offering book buyers the ability to see
a book before they purchase and to look inside the book as if they were browsing in
their local bookstore. In addition, the Ingram Search and Discover platform allows
potential customers to find books that meet their needs by making publisher content
crawlable by Microsoft Live Search, Google and other leading search engines.
"Ingram understands the changing nature of business priorities and the decision by
the Live Search Books management team to focus its resources on other
opportunities," said James Gray, President and CEO of Ingram Digital. "Microsoft has
done an excellent job evangelizing to publishers about the benefits of digital
discovery of book content, and Ingram is in strong agreement with the benefits to
readers, publishers and booksellers. We look forward to working with publishers to
help them manage this transition and continue to develop their digital strategy."
ABOUT INGRAM DIGITAL
Ingram Digital is an Ingram Content company. Together with Ingram Book Group and
Lightning Source Inc., the Ingram Content companies provide a broad range of
physical and digital services to the book industry. Ingram Digital provides
publishers and other content owners with a comprehensive offering of digital content
accession, storage, management and distribution services. Ingram Digital currently
has several solution platforms - including MyiLibrary and VitalSource Technologies -
which serve the institutional and educational markets respectively. In addition,
Ingram Digital also serves the retailer market with full e-book and audio downloads
as well as various search-and-discovery and marketing tools such as widgets. For
more information, visit www.ingramdigital.com.

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