PAPERLESS JOY
Among the trends that have contributed to the decline of paper consumption, none has been as relatively abrupt as the virtual demise of the market for photographic paper and the shift in disseminating news and images from printed to electronic forms.
Vaclav Smil • Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
Recently, printers have started to offer digital printing options, churned out by fast ink-jet machines that can produce books with quality and appearance that match an offset copy. Here the unit costs do not go down with volume, but there are no minimum quantities; this means that publishers can print much closer to the demand.
Mike Shatzkin • The Book Business: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Idea #26: Download Product Manuals