Print on demand, the balance of power between paper and pixel

Printing on demand had an extreme change on printing process. It has many beneficial potential to paper printing.  There are some reasons that printing on demand is better, it can save more papers, many people can have access to copies of book much easier, it can sell through websites like amazon, and people can avoid handling hard copy papers.  It also changes the fundamental of publishing books.

POD printing made the possibility for people and publishers to make PDF files and be able to sell them online within few days. As the essay points out “ Anyone can easily raise the nominal charge (typically much less than 100 euros) required to publish a book or magazine”. Furthermore, the only technical knowledge required is the ability to properly generate a PDF file you can also spend few hundred euros more, and have the POD generated it for you. For example, the book “My life in tweets” by James bridles in graphic format, which can be purchased for display; that made this possible to have tweets format.

I think it is more efficient to use, it allows the customers to choose their own content in which case that each customer have another possibility of POD is, people can update their content, so each content can be update all the time and it is by author, publishers, user and contributors.  It also makes it possible for huge number of printing on screen and it is easy to use, it is also affordable and more accesses able than actual book.

Overall I think POD had big impact on the way of publishing books and accessing it to everybody with easier way, that is cheap and pleasant, and it is almost about what paper is about.