Textism And when I finally saw a copy, it was, as a physical object, an aberration. A POD book is essentially this: a coarsely laser-printed wad of paper bound within an inch of its life by half a pound of adhesive and an even more coarsely colour laser-printed cover (solid colours mottled, continuous tones broken up into chunky screen dots), laminated with crappy Saran Wrap that curls the cover outward.
After a year of this nonsense we’ve given up. Through the combination of an Old Economy offset printer and an Old Paradigm distribution house, the author’s books are now arriving safely into the hands of those who pay for them, who in turn get to curl up with something that isn’t the publishing equivalent of a cheap plastic toy.