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Guardian Unlimited Looks At print-on-demand. They say The Internet is allowing unsigned authors to publish books affordably, while keeping old titles alive.
Print on demand enables unsigned authors to publish their books without having to pay for the first 500 or 1,000 copies, as they are simply downloaded from a data base to be printed copy by copy as required. This is leading to an unexpected growth area – the re-publishing of out-of-print books going back for centuries. Whoever thought that the new technology of the internet would lead to a revival of one of the world’s oldest industries?