I demand Print

Print on demand is a weird thing. I upload thing document to the air and it comes back to me in the physical form of a book. Print on demand takes our ones and zeros and converts them into paper and letters. This transfer of data, which I have yet to understand, allows users to be more experimental with the books they wish to make. "A similar approach was further explored by Wired magazine for their July 2007 issue; 5,000 subscribers were given the option of receiving their own customised cover of Wired, featuring their own photo on the cover. The experiment was sponsored by Xerox and produced using their iGen3 digital printing machine." Seems a little dated as a year but the point is that because of the no money down, wild west rules to print on demand people are allowed to experiment more with what they wish to show. I'm not old enough to remember or even know what it was like to try and get a book published. My take is that you would have to go to some guy and pitch what the book you wanted to write and he would decide if the book was a good idea or not. Some suit telling you what is good and what isn't. But today I can just upload a bunch of ones and zeros to something that reads those ones and zeros to give me paper and letters. The possibilities for what books should look like/ have in them is no longer decided by the suits, its decided by you, the public.