PRINT ON DEMAND IS HERE
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Bookshops are not places
you would normally associate with the cut and thrust of technology innovation
but in their own quiet way they will become just that over the next five
years, as digital technology enhances the way books are manufactured, sold
and consumed. But whatever the pitfalls of replacing a simple, efficient
technology with a complex and expensive one, the distribution and
manufacturing process behind paper-based books can be wasteful and
inefficient, which is where publishing on demand comes in. Although people have been
talking about it for years, companies have only now put the building blocks
into place for a viable business model. But there are other
benefits. The key to POD is recognising that publishing has been digital for
as long as there have been word processors and desktop publishing. In other
words, once publishers have digitised and laid out a text, it exists for as
long as the disks it is stored on exist, regardless of whether that text is
ever made into a book. It can be reproduced in any form, and distributed
online and worldwide for next to nothing. POD at its simplest means using
digital library technologies such as those associated with IBM�s DB2
database, together with digital print-and-bind technologies to make a
physical book only when customers order it. IBM�s digital library facility
with DB2 works like a cash point, only you withdraw fully licensed and secure
content from it rather than cash. But for paper-based books
specifically, POD opens up a world of possibilities and solutions to age-old
problems for those publishers who see it as a licence to print money. One of
paper�s unique strengths is also its greatest weakness - it decays. While a
Harry Potter or a Delia Smith can be piled high and sold cheaply and quickly,
a first novel in paperback, or a promotional tie-in with this year�s boy band
may lie in tomorrow�s warehouse full of unsold books. If you have a book you
wish to publish please go to www.writersworld.co.uk
WRITERSWORLD have just concluded a deal with an American based
Print on Demand publisher which would not only make your book available as a
Print on Demand in the UK via Bertrams (wholesaler to the retail trade),
Amazon and Cypher, it would also make it available
through the biggest book distributors in the United States - Ingrams and
Baker & Taylor. If the book is ordered in the |
Your book would be
available at every major internet bookshop in the United Kingdom and the
United States including; Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bol,
Waterstones, WHSmith, Ottakar's,
Hammicks, Blackwell�s, Methvens
etc; on websites throughout Europe, the Far East, Australia, America, and
over 12,500 retail booksellers. If you choose WRITERSWORLD for your book they can also
arrange for it to be published in Spanish, German, French, Italian and
Norwegian and translate your book. If you have a coloured book they can
give you a fixed price quote on it. E-BOOKS: If you have a published e- book that has been
properly formatted (word format) , edited, proofread and which has a
professional cover in 300 DPI, we will publish it as a Print on Demand book available
in the United Kingdom and the United States for �350.00. This price includes
issuing an ISBN number, listing the book with all the major book retailers,
supplying six copies to the Legal Deposit Libraries in the United Kingdom and
the Republic of Ireland, and supplying the first hundred copies at cost (plus
shipping charges). We reserve the right to refuse to publish any book that is
racist, defamatory, badly written or does not have an acceptable cover. If
supplied in PDF format only there may be an extra charge. HEALTH
WARNING If you decide
to use a book publisher make sure of the following: 2. Make sure
that they deposit all six copies of your book with the Legal Deposit
Libraries. This is a legal requirement for every book published in the �3. Make sure your book will appear at every
major retail outlet in the 4. Pin them
down as to exactly what each copy of your book will cost if you order it
direct from the publisher. This is another way publishers extract money from
writers. Do all of this before you spend a penny
with any book publisher. Unlike some of
our competitors who, because of their enormous overhead publish
virtually anything we are discerning. We will not take a new writer on unless
and until they have checked out the service we provide with past and present
clients. We will provide you with the references to check. WRITERSWORLD have also moved into the book reprint market in a
big way and have a great free Newsletter. Please contact us at [email protected] |