Internet Bookshops - Comfortable, Practical, Safe !

Jan. 6, 2011 - PRLog -- There are about 13,5 million books in English alone, in the market.  Add to it the books in other languages and the count will reach perhaps a billion. This explosion in the number of books in the market, is largely due to the new computerized, digital publishing techniques which have made it possible in the past 20 years to publish books with the P.O.D. method. This method has taken about forty percent of the business from the publishers who use offset methods in printing. What is the difference?
With the P.O.D. method which uses digital technique, limited amount of books are printed
and distributed globally to various internet bookshops. As the books are sold, signals from the retailer internet shops are fed into the publisher's computer and new copies are quickly printed and supplied to the wholesaler and to the internet bookshops. Books never go out of print and because offset is not used, there is no need for storage and there is no loss
in business due to unsold books. But, P.O.D. publishers , owing to the nature of the digital printing, usually sell only in the internet bookshops and not in the physical bookstores
which favor offset books. According to one publisher, up to 100.000 copies, it is usually
more economical to use the digital print and after 100.000  copies offset technique proves to be more economical.
Due to this new digital printing and distribution techniques internet bookshops have mushroomed all around the world. Many P.O.D. publishers use as many as 200 internet bookshops in selling their books. Books published by these P.O.D. publishers are also usually available through the physical bookstores, by giving their ISBN , but  not readily on their shelves. Waiting time for delivery is short, usually a week or so.
Shopping for books at the internet bookshops is easy, practical and can be done in the comfort of one's home or office. One doesn't need to go to a physical bookstore, look for parking space, rub shoulders with a crowd while looking at the books, wait in the queu to pay. Physical bookstores are also limited in the number of books they carry on their shelves. This is perhaps between 30.000 to  50.000 in usual bookstores as against the 13,5 million books in English alone that are on the market ! For the remaining of books
that are not  on the shelves,  one has to order by giving their ISBN , just the same as one does in the case of digitally printed P.O.D. books.
Internet bookshops are indeed a new, modern and comfortable and safe way to shop for books.
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Author Askin Ozcan who has published six books in different genres in five years with three different book publishers ( Outskirts Press , Publish America, Xlibris) is very satisfied
with the digital P.O.D. publishing and selling his books at internet bookshops. His books are sold at 200 internet bookshops, but are also available through 25.000 physical bookstores globally  by giving the ISBN of the books. (ISBN are  the internationally accepted registration number on the books.)
Some of the internet bookshops are : www.bn.com , www.amazon.com , (and all amazons)www.adlibris.com, www.infibeam.com , www.flipkart.com , www.libreriauniversitaria.it,
www.capris.no, www.fishpond.com.au, www.loot.co.za
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Web-page for author Askin Ozcan:
www.xlibris.com/AskinOzcan.html

Books of Askin Ozcan:
http://www.prlog.org/10753559.html

Press-releases by Askin Ozcan:
http://pressroom.prlog.org/AskinOzcan/

Interview with Askin Ozcan
http://www.prlog.org/10532025.html