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Article: Amazon delves into on-demand publishing
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- International Herald Tribune
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- April 12, 2005
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Bob Tedeschi
International Herald Tribune
04-12-2005
Sure, Amazon.com can sell books. But can it make them? The company itself raised that question, among others, last week when it purchased BookSurge, a book printing business based in Charleston, South Carolina, that specializes in so-called on-demand printing. BookSurge, which was privately held, is among a handful of companies spawned during the dot-com boom that rely on Internet technology to print a few books at a time, or even one at a time. The services have been most popular with writers who are unable or unwilling to strike deals with publishing houses, and who do not want to spend thousands of dollars to complete a print run of, ...