Digital Book Production: The Demands of On Demand

Academic and nonfiction book publisher Gorgias Press (www.gorgiaspress.com) in Piscataway, NJ, would not even exist were it not for digital printing, according to President, Editor-in-Chief (and Rutgers lecturer in Syriac) George Kiraz. The publisher produces about 50 titles per year, including highly specialized academic works as well as rare, out-of-print titles in the public domain. Press runs are typically around 100 copies, occasionally as high as 1,000, and sometimes as low as one. The great majority of the content is black-and-white, with less than 10 percent color—mainly in the form of inserts. Books are currently printed on an EP press, although Kiraz is considering moving to inkjet if the quality continues to improve—and the costs continue to decline.