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Dan Pacheco

The Print on Demand Revolution

As I delve more into Printcasting, I've been learning about the relatively new and growing POD movement -- which stands for Print on Demand. And every new leaf I turn over is another confirmation of what we suspected when we originally entered Printcasting into the Knight News Challenge. There's an all-out technology revolution happening with print which, until now, newspapers have largely missed out on. Here are just a few examples. For this first one, I have to thank Medill student and journalistic-programmer Brian Boyer who introduced me to the service. When I met Brian at the MIT Future of...

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Media companies been trying to use technology to build new audiences and business models for ages now. Feels like too little, too late.

Hiroko Tabuchi
Journalism, Technology Starting to Add Up

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