One theme we’ve underscored over the years is the exponential explosion of printed (and printable) content we’ll be seeing in publishing that will make the already astonishing 300,000 to 500,000 new titles a year some modest. Some of it comes from self-publishing and “micro-publishing” (in which organizations and other intellectual property creators use the POD self-publishing toolset to publish–you could also call it “publishing as a service.”) Another phase comes from the way print-on-demand and software in tandem enable the nearly-instant creation of literally an infinite number of new “books” based on content that already exists in some form. And […]