Amazon nowadays announced a new Print-on-Demand (POD) program for Books, which dramatically expands the selection of titles available to customers and offers publishers a cost-effective method to make the broadest possible range of their authors' titles available.

Using POD technology, Amazon can rapidly print and ship just one book in response to a customer's order. Titles from the program will always be in-stock, allowing customers to benefit from Amazon's shipping offers that include Amazon Prime and Same Day Delivery. There are presently over 600,000 titles available for printing from Amazon.

Amazon POD gives a cost-effective way for publishers to offer titles for sale to customers in Japan. POD will in particular help foreign book publishers who want to sell each their backlist and frontlist into the Japanese market with no the cost and risk of overseas shipping and local inventory. POD can be a excellent solution for out-of-print works, area of interest titles, custom books, foreign terminology editions and choice formats, that include big print.

Leading publishers from around the world are working with Amazon to offer their titles via its POD service, which includes Cambridge University Press, Macmillan, British Library, Taylor & Francis and Springer.

"We are pleased to add our U.S. POD titles to this innovative program," said Tom Stouras, Vice President of provide Chain and revenue Operations at Macmillan. "Being able to print these guides locally, via the CreateSpace platform, will get the guides to the readers a whole lot more quickly and supports Macmillan's environmental initiatives."

"We hope to take hundreds of thousands of guides to Amazon's customers that might never have otherwise been available, particularly in Japan, foreign terminology guides were hard to keep in investment on account of their relatively lower need and longer lead times. By introducing POD, publishers are heading to be enabled to keep all their titles perpetually in investment at Amazon. Such an innovative new solution are heading to be a significant benefit to each the publishing industry and our customers." said Kazufumi Watanabe, Vice President of Media at Amazon.

"We are pleased that Amazon has become producing Springer STM guides in Print-On-Demand in Japan," said Ryoji Fukada, Managing Director, Springer Japan KK. "Currently Springer publishes a whole lot more than 5,000 new English-language titles each and every year. Since many of these titles concern new scientific information, it is crucial for our readers to be able to acquire them as soon as possible. Using POD, our guides will reach our readers faster."

For a restricted time, Amazon will provide free setup for publishers with POD-ready PDF files. Amazon can be offering competitive manufacturing rates as component of its comprehensive solution.