“We want our publishers to stand with us. To make a pledge that they will never release books that were created by machines.”

  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    I tried to read about “just-in-time economy” but I really don’t see how it would apply to book market?

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      11 hours ago

      It means that today pretty much anybody can start a book publishing company, because just-in-time print shops will handle literally all of the expensive overhead that is associated with running a publishing company and just print whatever you hire them to print on demand for you once customers actually place orders, sometimes even on a commission basis so you don’t even have to pay them money unless people are actually buying the books you are publishing.