On Feb 27, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
... Mass production books will soon be a thing of the past.
Possibly.
Print on demand books like these from blurb.com and other vendors seem
to be on the rise, however. Perhaps rather than having huge volumes of
books printed, shipped, stacked, displayed, sold, returned,
remaindered, recycles, landfilled, etc etc, the future allows you to
find the content you want and output it on demand into a custom
printed volume, on demand, to read and enjoy. Books become special
things made because someone wants them, rather than because someone
wants to sell them. Bookstores become vendors of new custom-made books
as well as repositories of "read and done with" books that are being
sold to new owners.
The death of the press run, not the death of books ...
Culture and society change anyway, but at least real books survive. ;-)
Godfrey
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