Ingram sees 'huge swing' to print on demand during coronavirus | The Bookseller

Taylor said some publishers had even used p.o.d. as a backup for frontlist titles during the crisis. He suggested the technique could help make the supply chain less fragile in the future. Taylor said: "Publishers are putting titles into print on demand who previously may have been reluctant to do so. Fulfilling a virtual inventory and manufacturing it is a less fragile supply chain than printing a book cheaply and shifting it round the world and putting it in a warehouse."