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Market Developments
On-demand book production continues to grow in the market with the establishment of partnerships and services among a number of key players.
- Baker & Taylor is partnering with RR Donnelley to provide publishers with short-run and on-demand services through Baker & Taylor's TextStream Digital Print Service.
- Open Road Integrated Media is expanding beyond e-book publication to also offer print-on-demand (POD) services.
- Springer Science+Business Media has an agreement with Amazon's CreateSpace (recently merged with BookSurge) for on-demand production of Springer's paperback book catalog as well as new large-print hardback editions.
- BiblioLife works with libraries, archives and aggregators to distribute out-of-print books via POD channels worldwide.
Also, self-publishing continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Bowker (the exclusive U.S. ISBN and SAN agency) reports that 764,448 titles were produced in 2009 by self-publishers and micro-niche publishers—an increase of 181 percent over 2008. Over the same period, the number of traditional book titles printed declined by 0.5 percent from 289,729 to 288,355.
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