Senator John McCain's announcement on Friday that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would be his vice presidential running mate created an unexpected demand for Palin's biography (released in April 2008), published by Epicenter Press: Sarah -- How a Hockey Mom turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down -- by the author Kaylene Johnson (ISBN 978-0-9800825-6-2. To meet the sudden and significant volume of bookseller orders, Epicenter turned to the Ingram Publisher Services and Lightning Source Inc. for the immediate manufacture and shipment of books to retail booksellers. David "Skip" Prichard, CEO of Ingram Lightning Group, said: "A relatively obscure book became the 'must read' for everyone following the closely contested presidential race." Ingram approached Epicenter Press on August 29, shortly after the announcement of Gov. Palin's selection as Senator McCain's running mate. Lightning Source was instrumental in assisting Epicenter Press with the conversion of the original hardcopy version of the title to a trade paperback edition. Within only a few hours of receiving the files from Epicenter Press on Friday evening, Lightning Source was printing books, with over 30,000 copies printed to date. John R. Ingram, Chairman of the Ingram content companies, commended the Ingram team as "yet another example of how print on demand can minimize order loss and maximize sales for publishers." Since its founding in 1988 in Fairbanks, Alaska, Epicenter Press Inc. has become a leading trade book publisher of general nonfiction titles about Alaska, and a leading publisher of books about sled dog racing and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The Ingram content companies provide a broad range of physical and digital services to the book industry. The content companies are Ingram Digital, Lightning Source Inc., Ingram Book Company, Ingram International Inc., Ingram Library Services Inc., Coutts Information Services, Ingram Periodicals Inc., Ingram Publisher Services Inc., Spring Arbor Distributors Inc., and Tennessee Book Company LLC.
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