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The Problem With Print on Demand
My naive assumption would be you pay out millions for celebrity biography. You then have to be sure that you're going to get it back. The problem is a book, I mean, I love beautiful books. My house is full of them. And we want to treasure them. But unfortunately, books that have varnishes, foils, glitter, if they go to be pulped and recycled, the things those can be recycled into are going to be a very low grade quality. So that's another issue too, is the actual design of the books. And the overproduction, not just in numbers, but actually of the objects, which you don't need to if you've got
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