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B&N Establishes Print-On-Demand Facility Paul Hilts -- 12/20/99 Barnes & Noble Inc. has announced plans to establish print-on-demand services in its distribution centers using IBM technology. B&N and IBM have been working with a pilot group of five publishers on a plan to "bring the full range of digital services to the publishing world at large by January 2000," according to Barnes & Noble vice-chairman Steve Riggio. The first installation, in the Jamesburg, N.J., facility, will use IBM InfoPrint 4000 printers to make books on demand by spring, to be followed by B&N's other two facilities "as soon as practical." "Barnes & Noble is going digital in a big way," Riggio declared, indicating plans to extend digital services to both publishers and customers. B&N recently invested in a production facility in the Philippines, where the company will digitize titles for publishers and convert them into various formats. | |
B&N Establishes Print-On-Demand Facility
Dec 20, 1999
A version of this article appeared in the 12/20/1999 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline:
