Print-on-demand books outnumbered traditional titles in 2008

Total output of books in the U.S. jumped by 38% in 2008, according to data from Bowker's Books in Print database, reported by Quill & Quire magazine. The details are quite interesting: traditional book production actually fell 3%, to 275,232 titles; but on-demand and short run titles jumped 132% to 285,394. In other words, print-on-demand now outnumbers what we have thought of as book publishing.