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THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: COUNCIL OF EUROPE SUPPORTS "BOOK PRINTING ON DEMAND".(Industry Trend or...

According to Mario Guaraldi, Italian on-line publisher and one of the twenty or so European publishers who elected to put their catalog on the web in 1996. This technology has the immense advantage of restoring to the publisher his editorial independence by allowing him to assume less financial risk: the problems of stocking books and of pulping books are eliminated, since only titles that have been ordered are printed on paper. The interest of on-demand printing is also clear for libraries which, like the Swiss National Library, have a dual mission of preserving endowment funds a

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