Klarinet Archive - Posting 000440.txt from 2004/11

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Opus Ultimum
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:25:41 -0500

Most book companies use print-on-demand as a way of life. They
can no longer afford to print 10,000 copies and hope that it will
sell. And if it does not, they have to eat those copies. So now
hardly any copies are printed. Almost every publisher in America
works that way now.

In the age of on line ordering, you request a copy on line, it is
ordered from any of a dozen places that are prepared to print one
copy of the book, and that is sent out to you in about 3-5 days.
A book ordered on Amazon.UK, gets printed in Nashville and is on
a place before you can turn around.

Barnes & Noble will stock a copy or two for convenience, but
rarely more than that number unless it is a crazy best-seller.
Publishing is very much a different world than it was as little
as five years ago.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Pay [mailto:tony.p@-----.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:19 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Opus Ultimum

On 12 Nov, "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

[re his book on the Mozart Requiem]

> What can I tell you, Don? Just go on Amazon.com and put my
name
> in the query box. Then send them a lot of money.

In fact, I went to amazon.co.uk, and found that:

> The above item will be printed and bound specifically for you
over the next
> 3-5 working days in the UK by the publisher's nominated
printer.

...by The Book Depository.

Is this print-on-demand a process that occurs with all copies of
your book,
or is it specific only to that company?

Tony
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