Libraries typically
stock more print books.
Not exact matches
Making it even
more difficult, I use
print - on - demand (POD) printers for my paperback and hardcover
books, which means that I don't have a
stock of
books available for sale.
For the past year or
more, Amazon has been marking some
book titles out of
stock when they aren't (they can't really be out of
stock when they're
printed on demand!).
Amazon has always kept a few copies of popular
print - on - demand
books literally in
stock in their warehouses, so it may actually be worse for
books that are slightly
more popular.
For those who wish, we offer our
books as POD (
Print on Demand —
more expensive for the reader, but we have no
stock or distribution costs).
These
print - on - demand interfaces potentially have the opportunity to change the
book industry by allowing bookstores to offer almost limitless works without having to
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Amazon has stopped taking pre-orders for
books published by Hachette, and are
stocking less inventory of
print books to place
more of a burden on Hachette to hold their own inventory and fill orders in a timely manner.
Then the comics market bust of the»80s somehow ended up creating even worse speculation, higher cover prices, shinier paper
stock,
more ads - to-less content
books, and the only
books I ended up reading continuously after that were Archie digests — those little ones with a million stories from all different eras
printed on pulp and sell for a couple bucks.
Christmas 2014 saw high - street booksellers sell
more print books than the year before, but those that
stocked e-readers sold far fewer of them than in 2013.
As well as locally made products we also
stock many other items such as gifts with a maritime feel, t - shirts (some
printed by Warrah Workshop here in the Islands), magnets, t - towels, mugs,
books and much, much
more.