23 November 2006

Random PODs

Random House is more than doubling its print-on-demand (POD) programme, according to the 17 November Bookseller. I had missed or forgotten the fact that Random started this programme in May with 91 titles (children's and adults'). Now, 120 more titles are being added, with more planned for next year. The books are printed by Antony Rowe.

From the Random House website: "A Print on Demand paperback looks and feels like any other paperback. The only difference is that it is only printed when you say you want it. It takes up to a week for us to take your order, print the book and deliver it. When it arrives it will be as good as new - because that is exactly what it will be..."

This has got to be good, hasn't it? Am I missing something?  A list of the titles that are available for order is at the link above.

23 Nov 2006 20:55:38 | Publishing

1 Comment

Clare

This is excellent - the way ahead, I hope. The publisher of one of my books ran out of copies of my paperback within a year of publication; and since they only reprint in batches of 2000 and have to sure of demand before they do, the paperback of my book was effectively out of print within a year. POD would be a much better answer.

Posted by: Clare | 23 November 2006 at 23:56

The comments to this entry are closed.

NEXT POST
Google book search spruced up Google book search is undergoing a much needed improvement. Unfortunately, its book search engine is not like the main Google search engine. On Google book search, you have to have a pretty good idea of the book you are looking for when you start to search. You can't just enter a couple of relevant keywords and get returns for lots of near shots. Instead you get returns of books that have titles with your keywords in them. I find this very strange, because when Google ran Amazon's search engine, you could key in a few flaky, half-remembered words from a book title or subject, and you'd probably get what you were looking for in the returns on screen 1 or if not, 2. Amazon has now (deliberately) fallen out with Google and runs on A9, its own search engine, which drives me crazy. (Amazon has great plans for A9 beyond selling stuff on Amazon: they see themselves as rivals to Google. Ha!) But I digress. The Amazon history shows that Google can do it for books. There is a niche, I am convinced of it, for people looking for a dimly remembered book via a few keywords. When I was...
PREVIOUS POST
Museum of childhood The Museum of Childhood in London is reopening on 9 December after a £4.7 million development. The 130-year old building should be restored to its Victorian glory (I'm paraphrasing here) with upgraded "visitor facilities" and a stunning new entrance. The museum used to be called the Bethnal Green Museum, and was opened in 1872. In an early form of placeism (of which this blog approves), the idea was that the local people would run it. This never happened, and nobody really knew what the museum was for, other than vague ideas of cultural enrichment for the impoverished East Enders. The museum settled on an emphasis on food, which began to decay. After the First World War, however, Arthur Sabin, one of the curators, began to focus on items that would interest children -- and the museum kind of stuttered on like this until the 1970s, when Roy Strong, director of the V&A, decided to officially dedicate the museum to childhood. On the museum's website you can find pages of children's activities as part of its aim" to encourage everyone to explore the themes of childhood past and present and develop an appreciation of creative design through our inspirational collections and...

Maxine

Science editor who likes reading crime fiction

Search

Become a Fan

My Other Accounts

Recent Comments