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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
I've never seen a print on demand book. What is the quality? Are their differences from original layout and design; margins, fonts, cover? What kind of spine? What kind of paper!?
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According to the linked article, the POD book is indistinguishable from other books in the case of large print-run paperbacks.
This piece of the article seems to sum it up nicely (as well as the entire state of the current publishing industry):
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And so it is that big publisher reluctance to cede Amazon control, or otherwise to change the way they currently do business, is tying up money supporting legacy infrastructure. This increases the costs to publishers and Amazon alike, and keeps costs higher for consumers. With print on demand, paper books could see a lot of the same benefits as paper [sic] books, but publishers would rather keep on doing things the way they’ve always done them.
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