Audio Report: On-Demand Printing Helps Sustain the Printed Page
via Marketplace on American Public Radio:
…a billion more pages are being printed on demand every month, though they are still a tiny fraction of the 1.7 trillion pages printed last year. Online retailing and the rise of e-books have spurred the growth in on-demand printing. Amazon is one of the biggest customers for Lightning Source.
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Lightning Source has a database of 9 million titles, 8 million of which are in the public domain.
Lightning Source, an on-demand publisher, is a division of Ingram. Larry Brewster from Lightning Source also comments.
The report includes a few words from Ingram CEO, Skip Prichard.
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Runs about 4 minutes.
See Also: Audio: A Different Version of The Report Aired on Nashville Public Radio (WPLN)
It also includes comments from Brewster and Prichard.
A text transcript is also available.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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