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POD (print-on-demand) started in India in the late nineties. Some say POD started around 1999 when Xerox launched its Safida. But it was a decade later that it became a staple part of the industry.
Kai Buentemeyer, director of Bindwel has experience of more than 30 years in manufacturing machines which have produced almost half the books consumed around the world. As the erstwhile CEO of Kolbus - a market leader in soft and hard cover adhesive binding machines - he has seen how publishing industry and book printing evolved globally, from close quarters. Buentemeyer has been visiting Indian book print firms and one multinational publisher in Delhi NCR. Dibyajyoti Sarma reports.
Bindwel’s India Book-Mission will celebrate with a half-day programme packed with ideas about how publishers and printers can come together to increase book consumption in India, understand ways to make books more affordable, and evolve the country to be one among the top two book print exporters in the world.