What is Print on Demand Publishing?
If you’re reading this now, you’ve probably heard about print on demand publishing. Print on demand publishing is more of a system of printing books than anything else. Many people refer to self-publishing companies as print on demand publishers. A print on demand book publisher is one that simply takes advantage of print on demand publishing techniques. Print on demand publishing allows a book publisher to print as few as one book. That means that authors and print on demand publishers no longer have to order hundreds or thousands of books before they know if a book will even sell. By employing print on demand technology, a print on demand book publisher pays more to print a copy of a book than it would if it was printing the book in large quantities of 1,000 or more (typically referred to as offset printing). The upside to using a print on demand book publisher is that your initial investment with regard to book inventory is low. Yes, you might be paying a bit more for the low prints
