First Edition Competitors

Nielsen is a global performance management company that provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers Watch and Buy. Nielsen’s Watch segment provides media and advertising clients with Total Audience measurement services across all devices where content — video, audio and text — is consumed. The Buy segment offers consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers the industry’s only global view of retail performance measurement. By integrating information from its Watch and Buy segments and other data sources, Nielsen provides its clients with both world-class measurement as well as analytics that help improve performance. Nielsen, an S&P 500 company, has operations in over 100 countries that cover more than 90 percent of the world’s population. For more information, visit www.nielsen.com.

The world is reading. Ingram helps connect our world with the books they want—print and digital—when they need them, in the simplest ways. To better serve an increasingly connected global community of readers we are transforming the book industry for the better: through smart leadership, cutting-edge technology, and revolutionary innovations in the manufacture and distribution of books. Providing comprehensive services for publishers, retailers, libraries and educators, Ingram makes these services seamless and accessible through technology, innovation and creativity. With an expansive global network of offices and facilities, Ingram’s services include digital and physical book distribution, print on demand, and digital learning. Ingram Content Group is a part of Ingram Industries Inc. and includes Ingram Book Group LLC, Ingram Publisher Services LLC, Lightning Source LLC, Ingram Library Services LLC, and Tennessee Book Company LLC.

Lulu is a global publishing technology company for businesses built on books. We provide the infrastructure that helps creators, brands, and publishers sell books worldwide through direct ecommerce integrations, API-driven automation, on-demand production, and global fulfillment. Our platform enables automated, scalable book production and fulfillment without inventory risk, offset minimums, warehousing, or manual logistics. The result is faster time to market, reduced waste, expanded margins, and ownership of the customer journey. Lulu is built for individual creators monetizing ideas, businesses scaling direct-to-consumer book sales, and enterprises powering complex publishing operations. We support every step of the lifecycle: • Create and upload with powerful, flexible tools • Automate secure publishing workflows through API integrations • Produce premium, on-demand books with intelligent global routing • Deliver direct to customers in 200+ countries and territories • Access to data and analytics for forecasting and sales visibility As a certified B Corp, we are committed to sustainable practices, ethical business standards, and community empowerment. We don’t just print books. We power the infrastructure behind modern publishing.