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The blame is somewhat misguided: what's blame to here is cost-cutting, not printing on demand. If you're willing to pay, you can get POD books that, certainly t
by decimalenough 7mo ago
The blame is somewhat misguided: what's blame to here is cost-cutting, not printing on demand. If you're willing to pay, you can get POD books that, certainly to the untrained enough, are indistinguishable from "real" books.
For example, Lulu's hardcover books with linen wrap, dust jacket, "premium" B&W printing with 60# uncoated cream look pretty darn good: https://www.lulu.com/pricing https://www.lulu.com/pricing
- lvales 7mo agoYeah, I'm leaning towards that conclusion as well. While I don't publish my writings, I have a few friends who do. The stuff that comes from Lulu, even the cheapest "models", is honestly fine. The ones from Amazon, not so much. Of course if you typeset and edit your book like a moron, that's going to impact the quality, but this has nothing to do with POD.
- stockresearcher 7mo agoI have to recommend the following: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo213648394.html https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo213648... Fewer and fewer books get this treatment by experienced professionals and it is often left to the author to do this work. This is really a great resource!
- lvales 7mo agoThanks, I for sure know someone who will be interested in this, I'll be sure to pass it along!
- aerhardt 7mo agoHi author here. I've bought a probability textbook from Lulu and it was fine. I don't blame POD but rather misinformation and poor quality. Almost all the POD books I've received from Amazon are very distinguishable from real books.