Why do large orders take longer to process?
Book production time for most books takes approximately 5 to 6 business days at all of our printers, here in the U.S. and in the Netherlands. If your order contains 25 books or more, you’ll need to add 3 extra business days to your book’s production time especially if you have a deadline to meet. Why? Larger orders may take longer because quality is important. Printing and binding issues occur with any manufacturing process, so the larger the order, the greater the odds that one of the books might not pass inspection. Book pages and cover materials travel in separate queues and then arrive at the end to be assembled. If one book has problems and needs to be reprinted, the rest of books are set aside until the reprint has passed inspection. So, if your order of 50 books is processing (printing and binding), and two of the books have manufacturing defects, these two books get reprinted, while the 48 books wait patiently. Once the two reprinted books join up with the rest of the order, th
