From Ebooks to Print

Eight or nine years ago, I started publishing ebooks (under Arment Biological Press) with the expectation that the market would grow, the public would embrace the new paradigm, etc., etc. That, of course, hasn't happened. People still like physical books. (Now, people do appear to like free ebooks. There just isn't a large market for ebook sales.)

[Interestingly, producing ebooks as supplements to books already in print has started to become popular recently, with sales averaging in the 10% range (10% of physical book sales). Even online books (Google Books, Amazon's online viewing "upgrades, etc.) are increasing.]

I've now become far more enthusiastic about POD, as this technology is getting better all the time. I've decided to start reissuing some of the former ebook titles as print titles. Every once in a while I get an email from someone wanting to know where the ebooks have gone on my site (technically, I think I've lost the actual pdfs during a move from one hosting site to another). But I still have the original scanned text - though I will need to rescan images for book quality output.