Saw this on Wil Wheaton's blog and I think I'll let the post speak for itself.

This is in fact huge news for people who don't have a deal with a publishing house and have to either A.) work with a smaller publisher or B.) self publish. Not only that, but it could be the next big thing in Print On Demand Publishing, because instead of waiting a week or so to get your book, you get it in 5 minutes!

And with out shipping costs or anything like that, self published books sold like this could very well make the author more money, which is always a good thing. Right now, if I had any books ready, I would be looking at maybe $2 profit from each $8 book (shipping costs, printing costs, site costs, ect. and that was before gas prices skyrocketed) With this thing, that could change to $3 or $4 per book. Not much, but it's still better then $2. And even if the profit were the same, it would still get the books to a wider audience, which is one of the biggest hurdles, self publishing or not.


On, and before any one leaves any nasty comments about how I got the numbers wrong, the last time I looked into print on demand sights was a few years ago, so I might have the numbers wrong, but the fact remains that this is huge, and if self publishers can get in on it, it will hopefully increase their profits.