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Originally Posted by Steven Lake
Correct. A POD printer doesn't necessarily need to be a publisher too, such as is the case with a vanity press. In this case the POD she goes through is a local print shop who is large enough to do runs like that for her at a good price. In fact, they also do POD for a lot of self published authors as well. And when I said POD, I did not mean "vanity press" just FYI. Print on Demand can be done by a regular print shop. In fact, that's technically what they do anyways. You demand, they print.  |
POD, though, is not just "print when you demand it" but a specific technology that is very expensive per piece. While it's getting better at doing mass runs, generally you use more conventional technology when you get up into the thousands.
I realized later that's what moejoe was questioning. (However, as I said, the techonology has revolutionized in the last couple of years. It's also converging, where the high-volume solutions are getting more and more like the by-piece solutions.)
Camille