POD Transforming Publishing

There are many benefits that Print-On-Demand has brought to the publishing world. POD makes it possible for anyone to publish a book for very little money. Now that we have the technologies to create a book that is cheap, easy, and quick to reproduce we can save money not only for the author but for the reader as well. Now that it is super easy to make a book, there is no need to find a company to publish your book. You become your own publisher. Society's recent technological advancements help lead to the creation of the Espresso Book Machine. Instead of uses old printing presses that would take forever to create one book, we now can make a book in minutes with the Espresso Book Machine.
"The machine can process a 300-page book (including cover and glue binding) in a few minutes,
which seems to support the American manufacturer’s definition of its product as an “ATM for books”."-pg 72.


Now people can create a book about anything they want. Philip M. Parker decided to use this cheap form of printing a book by compiling a bunch of information he gathered from the internet into organized books. He ended up publishing 200,000 books that were then sold on Amazon. Since POD is so easy and cheap, it is much easier to edit and update your book whenever you want. POD has aloud for anyone to create a book were their creative will not be stifled and it won't break the bank.