What the Photo Industry Can Teach Publishers about Digital Printing

The photo industry may not seem like a likely source of insight for book publishers, but its transformation in the 1990s has a few lessons worth noting, as Publerati founder Caleb Mason observes in his September blog post. In-store photo kiosks-the instant photo printing machines that now occupy nearly every department store and pharmacy in the U.S.-bear more than a passing resemblance to print on demand book machines, writes Mason, a former photo industry professional himself. The disruption that the kiosks brought to legacy photoprinting labs may point to a similar upheaval for booksellers and publishers.