The Distant Librarian

POD Friday!

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Paul R. Pival
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Couple of really interesting developments in the print-on-demand world today:

  1. Amazon has partnered with four (soon to be more?) libraries to digitize public domain books and then sell them in paper to consumers.
    See coverage from:

  2. The New York Public Library appears to be the first in the nation to have a print-on-demand machine in house.  Ooh, U of Alberta up the road is getting one this fall.
    See coverage from:

Hmm, combine these two technologies (and a heavily-modified copyright law) and you’ve got a new way to deliver monographs to your distance students!

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