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That's not really compatible to improvements in printing technology. Printing on home inkjet or let was and still is hugely more expensive and slower per page t
by quietbritishjim 7y ago
That's not really compatible to improvements in printing technology. Printing on home inkjet or let was and still is hugely more expensive and slower per page than buying a mass produced book or newspaper, and Amazon didn't introduce any printing technology unless you were referring to e-ink used in Kindle (but they didn't invent it).
- dredmorbius 7y agoLaserjet printing is comparable to the cost of commercial photocopying, at a few pennies per page. Inkjet is, of course, far more expensive. There is a trade-off in cost, speed, and access. If you've got a reasonably high-speed laserprinter, you can provide a printed copy of a book in a few minutes. There are binding options available as well, some of which are quite comparable to lower-grade commercial paperback bindings. Amazon's book sales inclue traditional hard- and soft-cover pre-printed materials, as well as print-on-demand, and electronic books. I'd consider most of Amazon's book sales and production at least adjunct to, and in cases, directly part of, improvements in print technology. Distribution itself has been a nontrivial problem.
- Symbiote 7y agoLaser printing introduced a cheap way to print small quantities at a decent quality. On the office multi-function printer, I can print booklets of up to something like 80 A3 (folded to A4) pages, with automatic stapling. Amazon (and others) have print-on-demand for small quantities of larger volumes.