Monday, 8 August 2011

Print on Demand

Most of my books have been published using Lulu.

Looking at the AbeBooks website, I see that one of the search options is now "Not Print on Demand".  The world of publishing is changing rapidly.  As a reader, I suppose I should support the option of filtering out of the search results "print on demand" books.  You could say that books that are "professionally" published have been through a sort of audition and the reader can be more certain of a degree of quality in content and production.  But if electronic publishing really takes off, it may be that "professional" publishersof the printed book will face such a small demand for printed books that they to will print on demand.

Something else I must explore - I have read in the past of machines that print books of your choice whilst you wait.  But do they exist? 

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