I just came across a very interesting tidbit in London’s Telegraph paper.
The article, “Penguin will publish new book titles as ‘ebooks’” was mostly about how Penguin will be releasing e-book editions simultaneously with the printed titles, sold from their own website and for the same price as the printed book (the last bit is, in my humble opinion, a mistake. The Kindle has already taught us that e-book prices should be less).
The most interesting part of the article was the last two paragraphs, however. Is this being covered anywhere else?
Bloomsbury, which publishes the Harry Potter books in the UK, recently signed a deal with Microsoft to be part of its Live Search programme, where users can find books and have them printed on demand.
The publisher hopes that the print-on-demand market, in which customers can have one off copies of out of print titles printed, bound and posted to them, will give older books a new lease of life.
Though backlist publishing via POD has been Big Publishing’s dirty little secret for a while now, Bloombury is coming out of the closet. Let’s face it: POD makes sense.
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