The ability to print books on demand has turned the traditional book publishing industry on its head.

By Bob Neubauer

ANYONE WHO strolled the exhibit floor at the On Demand show in March can attest to the popularity of on-demand book printing and binding. The ease with which single copies of books can now be produced has spawned big changes in the book publishing industry.

Instead of hunting for a publisher to bankroll the printing of thousands of books (or paying a vanity publisher), authors can upload their novels to any of several sites, where they will stay in digital form until someone buys one. Digital presses push out a single copy, the author gets a tiny royalty check and the customer never knows the book didn’t exist a few days ago.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.

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