Amazon.com Takes On Digital Book Printers
By Graphic Arts Online Staff -- Graphic Arts Online, March 27, 2008
Amazon.com delivered a blow to on-demand book printers as it has notified publishers who print books on demand they must use its printing facilities if they want their books sold directly on the online giant’s website.
News of Amazon's new policy was posted on several Websites on yesterday and reported in today’s Wall Street Journal.
Amazon offers POD book printing through its BookSurge unit, which it acquired in 2005. The company brought color book printing in-house in 2006, when it installed multiple HP Indigo digital presses at its fulfillment centers. (
) Amazon recently acquired audio book seller Audible Inc. Amazon also sells its own e-book reader called the Kindle (
). Amazon is one of the biggest booksellers in the U.S., with a market share publishing experts estimate to be about 15%.
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If Amazon continues to follow this unethical path then we are all at risk in the printing industry.
So what happens next is an Amazon solider get the bright idea to buy out a book printer? I would assume the plan would be sell only books printed in their plant.
Scary stuff
Let's keep the greed in check
Anita Job - 2008-29-3 15:58:00 EDT
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