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by ahoyhere 5044 days ago
I think we all know what Print on Demand is, but that Wikipedia page doesn't list any proof for your assertion that it is "the coming thing." The only publishers it lists as offering POD are specialty POD publishers.

That's hardly the sweeping industry change you described.
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lutusp 5044 days ago
Your objection is that there is little evidence in the present for an assertion about the future -- the "coming thing". Knock yourself out.
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ahoyhere 5044 days ago
You state things in the present tense:

"In modern publishing, there's no need -- books are printed, one copy at a time, when they are ordered… This change (electronic on-demand publishing) essentially wipes out the traditional publishing model."

This implies that this is the way things are, now, or will be in the very near future, for the majority. And there's no proof that "in modern publishing, books are printed, one copy at a time."

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lutusp 5043 days ago
> This implies that this is the way things are, now, or will be in the very near future, for the majority.

And? It's a reasonable prediction based on current trends, and see below for more evidence.

> And there's no proof that "in modern publishing, books are printed, one copy at a time."

What? That's true -- it is how "modern publishing" is distinguished from old-style publishing. This is not to say that the majority of books are published that way, but then I never made that claim.

In modern publishing, books are "printed" one copy at a time, when they are ordered. How is that remotely controversial? It covers on-demand publishing as well as e-books:

http://www.3dissue.com/ebook-market-share/

Quote: "Whilst the market has seen significant growth since 2008, the last 12 months in particular has shown a substantial rise. Between January 2011 to January 2012, sales in adult eBooks grew by 49.4%, while sales in children and young adult eBooks grew by 475.1%, according to the AAP. The good news for digital publishers is this trend is expected to continue."

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ahoyhere 5043 days ago
Who other than you considers ebooks "printed"?
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lutusp 5043 days ago
Who other than you doesn't?

E-Book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book

Quote: "An electronic book (variously, e-book, ebook, digital book, or even e-editions) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers or other electronic devices.[1] Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital. The Oxford Dictionary of English defines the e-book as "an electronic version of a printed book" ...

http://speakingvolumes.us/about-our-ebooks.asp

Quote "Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, eBooks can also be born digital ..."

No need to repeat ... hundreds of other sites make this meaning clear.

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