Dwarf Printing

David Prichard discusses global distribution in the digital age, libraries, print on demand, the future of the printed book, discoverability, and changing company culture. For the latest news on the digital transition for books, visit www.digitalbookworld.com A joint production of Digital Book World and Astral Road Brand Media: www.astralroad.com

Modern libraries have technology plans which allow them to identify institutional needs for facilitating patrons access to information. Modern libraries are now recognizing that with millions of old books on the Internet, and hundreds of thousands of new books published yearly–that libraries (and copy shops) can now print and bind books for patrons that might otherwise not be in a library's holdings, or stocked in a book shop. The Palo Alto Measure N library has no Technology Plan, and will …