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.
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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,"
What's hot off the presses come Thursday? Any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public domain. Over the
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....
You call the shots. You retain the rights to your book. And you take home a
bigger royalty than you'd normally get from a traditional publisher--if you sell
any books.
Many argue--and I
agree--that Amazon's shrewd CEO Jeff Bezos is leveraging his company's position
as the largest bookstore in the world to corner the market for print-on-demand,
electronic publishing (Kindle), and
completely shift the paradigm for publishing.