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As far as manufacturing is concerned, print-on-demand is a good example of one sector that has gone into the production-on-demand direction. Springer has almost
by nhaehnle 15y ago
As far as manufacturing is concerned, print-on-demand is a good example of one sector that has gone into the production-on-demand direction. Springer has almost entirely to print-on-demand, for example.
But yeah, I'm with you that the extent of future changes is almost always either over- or underestimated.
- earino 15y agoI work for Lightning Source, a POD provider, and I can tell you that the "production-on-demand" model is working out pretty fine and dandy :-)
- michael_dorfman 15y agoThat's a bit of an overstatement where Springer is concerned. Right now, they have 15,000 titles from the past 5 years available as print-on-demand, which is impressive enough, but they publish 6,500 titles per year, and have been for decades-- so they are still a long way from having even half of their titles available in that form. Not exactly "almost entirely".