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Originally Posted by fugazied
For a second there I had the horrible thought of poor ebooks turning back into print then turning back into ebooks, degenerating into a mess hehe. But these printed works seem to be for a niche audience, people looking for works which have been out of print for many years.
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That niche audience is fairly large. I know one chap in California who makes a good living, thank you, doing print on demand versions of Gutenberg titles. He grabs the text, typesets, creates covers, and sends them off for POD reproduction, and collects the proceeds on what people buy. What people
do buy is a crap shoot, and he can never really guess which titles will actually sell, but since it's POD, the main upfront cost is the effort of creating the files books will be printed from. What sells, sells. What doesn't isn't a factor, as it isn't manufactured unless there's an order for it.
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Dennis