That's Production's fault. Print-on-demand will deal with them. Bob
> > I'll raise a different problem that's coming up. > > When I worked for a printer/publisher of children's books, > titles selling only 10-20,000 copies a year were a real problem. > (They were quality products selling in the $15-$25 range in > today's prices.) > Publishing wanted to do the book, but Production wanted to > run 50,000 minimum. > This resulted in piles of inventory of slow/low sellers - sometimes > 5-10 years supply. > > Electronic publishing of books will reduce or eliminate that set-up > cost barrier for print, > and that's a good and bad thing. Good becauise many interesting > things will now be published. > Bad because lots of garbage will flood the market with no > cost barriers. > Your problem will become finding good things to read among > all the trash. > > Regards, Bob S. > > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Mark Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: > > mike wilson wrote: > >> > >> What will stop it is the lack of virtually free energy. > When a set of AAs > >> cost the equivalent of £200 at today's prices, what are > you going to use > >> them on? When your mains electricity is only on for a few > hours each day, > >> what are you going to have working? > > > > By that time, the printing presses and the trucks to > distribute books will > > be shut down. > > > > What really does stand a chance of stopping electronic > books is the specter > > of DRM that Bill Robb and Adam Maas have pointed out. > Publishers' greed, in > > other words. > > > > People have to be able to back up electronic books somehow, > so that they can > > be confident that if they drop, break or otherwise > incapacitate their > > reading device, they haven't lost the hundreds of books > thay bought to store > > on it. > > > > The real Achilles Heel of the whole enterprise isn't > technological it is, as > > usual human. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
