{"id":208,"date":"2009-01-25T20:29:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T00:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=208"},"modified":"2010-11-06T10:40:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T14:40:21","slug":"on-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"on demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's an interesting article from Time:<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1873122,00.html\">http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1873122,00.html<\/A><\/p>\n<p>One odd thing is that it doesn't talk about print-on-demand.  It talks a lot about vanity publishing and self-publishing, but the examples indicate that a large amount of cash up front is still necessary to do this, which is really <I>so<\/I> 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>Because, to pick an example completely at random, there's my book, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/content\/2274007\">A Sane Woman<\/A>, which was published quite nicely with no money up front at all, via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\">lulu.com<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, though, it's an interesting article.<\/p>\n<p><B>Later<\/B>: <\/p>\n<p>I'm gonna plug my book again, because now you can read a few messages from people who bought it and liked it, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.poconut.com\/index.php?&content=community&com=board&brd=topic_227406\">here<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>(It's a website for the band Poco, but they don't mind off-topic stuff, obviously.  I'm \"waldo\" over there.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F208&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F208&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting article from Time: http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1873122,00.html One odd thing is that it doesn&#8217;t talk about print-on-demand. It talks a lot about vanity publishing and self-publishing, but the examples indicate that a large amount of cash up front is still necessary to do this, which is really so 20th century. Because, to pick an example [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,9],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing-2","category-writing","tag-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}