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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Or maybe print on demand (POD) will rise. I see a bright temporary future for that technology. Why have a book store, even for physical books, when a kiosk will do?
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Because it's expensive, both for the end-user and the investor?
The benefits of offset printing is that it's significantly cheaper to print the book than if you do it via print-on-demand.
And print-on-demand printers are ridiculously expensive. There's no POD in my country, for example, save for the lone Espresso Book Machine from the Asian Development Bank (which makes it the only one in Southeast Asia if I'm not mistaken).