From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 14:20:11 +0000 >Personally my online versus physical buying habits are now more to do >with being able to get a physical product immediately instead of >waiting even 24 hours rather than strictly price. Convenience book >store on every corner anyone? This is the (as yet unrealized) promise of retail print-on-demand technologies such as the Espresso Book Machine. It will take two changes for that promise to be realized, one business/cultural and one data/technological: first, publishers will need to decide that they¹re okay with making their frontlist content available on a storefront POD basis; second, the companies that manage networked collections of ebook content will have to figure out a scalable and sustainable way to make that content quickly and intuitively findable by customers. Both of these strike me as attainable goals, but they haven¹t been accomplished yet. Rick Anderson Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections Marriott Library, University of Utah [log in to unmask]