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Originally Posted by Quoth
It costs them nearly nothing to release a title via POD and they are only doing it for specialist technical books. Idiots.
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I mean, isn't there a higher per-book price for POD copies rather than traditionally printed books made in large batches, albeit with virtually no risk you'll end up sitting on a bunch of unsold inventory, perhaps even having to dispose of said unsold inventory.
(I know, I misrepresented your argument, which is preparing a book for POD and having it sit on a server indefinitely is fairly cheap.
And there are additional benefits like if your author has a sudden spike in interest you can quickly respond to that. An example of that I've seen cited is when John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his VP candidate.