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Hochschild, Joshua P
First things (New York, N.Y.), 11/2020Journal Article
The gold standard for ink transfer is offset printing, which uses physical plates to press liquid ink onto paper. Print-on-demand means that many books are staying "in print" (or at least "printable"), and it can't be denied that advances in glue technology, and in how pages are prepared for gluing, mean that many glued books are reasonably well-made. Why not add an ISBN number (and corresponding price point) for digitally printed perfect-bound hardbacks? ...there could be other ways (likely requiring the coordination of publishers and booksellers) to encode and display more information about the physical specifications of books for sale.
