Hewlett Packard Creates Two Programs to Aid the Publishing Industry
At the Web 2.0 summit HP released some interesting news about new programs centered on helping the publishing industry to reduce waste. Currently roughly 62% of all magazines (that’s about 2 billion magazines) never reach consumers and are destroyed and disposed of in landfills and only a small percentage of books remain in print while again many of them are destroyed and disposed of, creating a large amount of waste through advance printing. BookPrep and MagCloud seek to reduce this waste and offer customers a cleaner, clearer copy that can be bought on demand.
BookPrep in particular utilizes programs like the Internet Archive and Google books as sources for books and offers printed copies via Amazon. Keep in mind that these are printed copies of public domain books at this point, books that are accessible via Google books and Internet Archive via the internet for free. But it does give you a nicely bound basic copy of a book you might not otherwise have the ability to own.
MagCloud has been operative since February and caters primarily to glossy magazines. It does much what lulu does by offering a custom printing program to potential buyers. When a reader buys an issue the magazine is printed at a location as close to buyer as possible to save on shipping and production costs. It also offers you the ability to get Wikia pages printed in a nice magazine format. While it doesn’t help the whole industry it does offer options to those with a limited amount of money to produce glossy publications for a small group of readers who can order them through the site.
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