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Article in Slate about POD and the ways in which it can help the yearbook business, which has some really interesting parameters to follow as a short-run publication....

HP announces a POD service for magazines.

U of M Press will publish monographs only in digital form with an option for POD. The money quote "I have been increasingly convinced that the business model based on printed monograph was not merely failing but broken,"

In this twittering, pod casting, screen-viewing, digital age, the morning after America's historic presidential election found hundreds of people clamoring for something a bit more old-fashioned and tangible: extra copies of the morning paper.

Springer's English-language paperback book catalog will be made available via POD.

Amazon seeks to control more of the book supply-chain.

Wednesday, November 9, Politics & Prose officially launched "Opus," Washington's first print-on-demand Espresso book machine. It's one of only a handful operating in independent bookstores worldwide.

Field trip, anyone?

An interesting post about the future of self-publishing and "literature."

Amazon UK is launching a print on demand program (or "programme" as they say), bringing out-of-print and backlist titles back into the market.

The new face of self-publishing

Andrew Keen, author of "The Cult of the Amateur" argues that 2009 is the year publishing hits the tipping point with respect to the printed book.