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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dana_Jorgensen" data-source="post: 1546433" data-attributes="member: 12962">An umbrella POD service is unlikely, as it requires investment on the part of the publishers, to the tune of a combined $25,000 to $35,000. If you're using POD to begin with, then you can't afford the money to invest.Using a foreign printer is a bad idea as well. First, there's no way to check the work until you have it. It isn't like you can simply drive from the U.S. to Singapore to check on facilities, workmanship, etc. And to top it off, there's a horrid delivery time of weeks as you wait for a container ship to slowly make its way  to the U.S., and then you wait for a truck to haul your cargo across the country.POD requires two things: First is a dedicated distributor that has itself structured the same way as distributors like Alliance or Blackhawk. Unfortunately, POD and the partial collapse of the industry weren't timed to coincide. Back then the distributors were thinning the herd of the games they carried way back in 1995-98, it was the opportune time for a new distributor to appear that specialized in providing service to lots of small publishers on an exclusive basis while ignoring the big companies. The same sort of exclusive dedication to POD would work for a new distributor now. Anyway, such a distributor would help knock the POD MSRPs down to a reasonable price.Second is for a lot of publishers to use POD, maybe even have numerous products limited to POD only. If POD books were commonplace in the market, perhaps people would overcome the perception of lower quality and buy them regularly, allowing more and more product to shift to POD, feeding a cycle.</blockquote>

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