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• Digital Publisher Open Road Media Moving Into Print Distribution

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  Open Road Integrated Media selects Ingram Publisher Services to print and distribute copies of its E-riginals

  1120 readers From the press release: Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, has selected Ingram Publisher Services and Lightning Source, Ingram Content Group companies, to distribute print versions of a group of its e-books. The program will begin in March 2012.“As a digital company, we have not distributed print editions of our e-books.