[jjice]

I've had a mixed outcome from Amazon POD. On one hand, I've gotten great quality books that wouldn't be available due to being old and not worth stocking or from small authors that wouldn't have the resources. On the other hand, I've gotten some real trash (physical quality, I can't blame them for content quality).

I think it may be based on the author to choose what they want the quality of the cover and pages to be, at a higher book price. I bought a book that an old coworker had written (not good, very much a cash grab short book, but I was interested in POD), and the cover was an awful matte finish with really low quality pages and print quality.

I've also gotten some good quality books from them, but they're always more expensive, so I bet there's some opt-in quality tradeoffs to be made by the original publisher/author.