Digital Full Color Opens New Book Markets
A sidebar to the print-on-demand manufacturing and fulfillment model is archiving PDF or XML files ready for e-book delivery. There’s also the reverse of linking electronic book publishing archives—such as Overdrive’s ContentReserve (www.Overdrive.com)—to print-on-demand manufacturers, or preparing PDF files for NetLibrary (www.NetLibrary.com) that can also be used to drive print-on-demand.
- Companies:
- Amazon.com
- Author House
- Book Expo America
- BookSurge
- Consortium
- Cyber-Read
- Deharts
- Digital Pulp Publishing
- Edwards Brothers
- Fiction-Wise
- Fidlar Doubleday Inc.
- IBM Corporation
- Ingram Industries Inc.
- Integrated Book Technology
- IUniverse
- Lightning Source Inc.
- Lulu.com
- NetLibrary
- Overdrive Inc.
- PMA
- RR Donnelley
- Xerox Corp.
- XLibris
Eugene G. Schwartz is editor at large for ForeWord Reviews, an industry observer and an occasional columnist for Book Business magazine. In an earlier career, he was in the printing business and held production management positions at Random House, Prentice-Hall/Goodyear and CRM Books/Psychology Today. A former PMA (IBPA) board member, he has headed his own publishing consultancy, Consortium House. He is also Co-Founder of Worthy Shorts Inc., a development stage online private press and publication service for professionals as well as an online back office publication service for publishers and associations. He is on the Publishing Business Conference and Expo Advisory Board.