On demand

I have an acquaintance who has written a book. He’s very excited about it, and so he should be. It's about to be published. Frankly, I’m a bit jealous. I just blog. For free :). Anyway, he told me that these days you do not have to print a lot of copies, store them and hope to sell them. In Amazon you place the order, they print (!) the book, put the cover on, pack it and ship it in 15 minutes. Isn’t that cool? Even after so many years in the IT business I am still getting amazed what technology can do…