The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 15, April 10, 2005, Article 11

AMAZON BUYS PRINT-ON-DEMAND BOOK PUBLISHER

"Amazon.com has acquired a publishing company that prints
books when they're ordered rather than relying on warehouses
stocked with titles, the online retailer said Monday."

"BookSurge LLC, based in Charleston, S.C., offers an
inventory-free book fulfillment network to publishers and
authors, and has a wholesale service for retailers, wholesalers
and distributors.

Founded in 2000, BookSurge maintains a catalog with
thousands of titles that are printed on-demand and available
for sale on Amazon.com."

"Print-on-demand has changed the economics of small-quantity
printing, making it possible for books with low and uncertain
demand to be profitably produced,'' said Greg Greely, vice
president of media products for Amazon.com. ``BookSurge
makes it possible to print books that appeal to targeted
audiences, whether it's one copy or 1,000.''

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This is the on-demand publisher's home page: booksurge.com

Print-on-demand could be an option for publishers of
numismatic literature, since the audience is very small
compared to the mainstream publishing world. Today, I
only have one such book in my library - an as-told-to
book about the life of coin dealer Edwards Gans of
Numismatic Fine Arts (the original firm, not the
incarnation Bruce McNall ran before being jailed).

Part of a university oral history project, Gans was
interviewed and the sessions were transcribed to text.
I ordered the book from the university. It's a very rare title
in the world of numismatic literature, yet anyone wanting
a copy could go to the publisher and order their own. -Editor.

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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