>>Recently I read a book (I have already forgotten the name and author), where they mentioned a process where instead of large book stores, these same stores print the book on demand. They had computer archive of every book and the customer comes in, sit at a computer, selects the book, and then goes to a counter to picks up the hard copy. Also, there were coffee stand as there are now.
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>I'm pretty sure Whil's using printing on demand now for some of the older HWP books.
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>Tamar

I still see this becoming more the norm in the future.