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Product Overview

Are you developing a website or in-store title reference system? content@ingram® is the data service for you!
content@ingram is Ingram Data Services’ richest and most comprehensive data set containing detailed bibliographic, metadata, and stocking information on all titles carried by Ingram. Ingram is proud of the unequalled integrity and breadth of product you will find in this database.

Major Data Components

Stock Levels – stock@ingram provides inventory levels in each Ingram distribution center and is offered free of charge to Ingram accounts. Develop your system to regularly download a fixed-width text file produced several times per day or you may program to utilize Ingram’s internet stock check to obtain real-time inventory information on a few titles at a time.

Titles – titles@ingram is our enhanced database for books and related items available from Ingram Book Company. This database contains more than 1.5 million titles featuring over 60 fields of bibliographic data including title, authors, edition, series, BISAC subjects, publisher, audience age, binding, physical dimensions, and much more!

Extended and Not Available Titles – These two additional databases provide bibliographic information on almost 4 million books. The extended title data file contains data on titles currently in print but not stocked by Ingram. The “not available” data file has title data on items primarily out-of-print. Featuring more than 60 fields of bibliographic data, these files have the same data elements as titles@ingram.

Images – images@ingram encompasses more than 1.7 million full-color cover images that add instant visual appeal and interest to your website or in-store title reference system.

Annotations – annotations@ingram contains paragraph descriptions on nearly 1 million records in our titles@ingram database. Each annotation is drawn from one or more sources and "scrubbed" of any publicity jargon or time-sensitive information.

Publisher Marketing – publishermarketing@ingram includes 1.6 million publisher descriptions consisting of text that appears in publisher catalogs and flyers.

Music – music@ingram will provide you with music descriptions that include an album’s playtime, subject categories, UPC, physical dimensions and vendor identification numbers. Product information can be found on recorded music, sheet music, hymnals, songbooks and accompaniment tracks. Secular and Christian items included.

Gifts – gifts@ingram provides comprehensive information about non-book products distributed by Ingram such as T-shirts, bookmarks, and plush toys. The data also contains an indicator identifying Spring Arbor’s church supplies and other products.

Bibles – bibles@ingram provides descriptive information providing the exact Bible version, type, and style your customer wants... right down to the color of the cover.

Metadata Components

Family – family@ingram will assist you in linking related titles together. For example, you may want to show various editions or formats of an item. This may include hardcover, quality paperback, mass market paperback, CD audio book or large print edition, to name just a few. This data also has the foreign language version of a title, when published by an American publisher

Themes – themes@ingram allows you to link titles with a common theme or subject to create effective, targeted, or seasonal lists or displays. Some examples include Chronological Period (1851-1899, 20th century, the 50's, Civil War) Cultural Region (Turkey, Carribean, New England), Ethnic Orientation (African-American, Japanese), Seasonal (Winter), Holidays (Christmas), Events (Bar Mitzvahs) and Geographic Orientation (New York, Washington)

Songs – songs@ingram will give you the table of contents for music, providing specific song titles as related to the music carried by Ingram and Spring Arbor.