In any case, I think the opportunity for regional and niche players will continue to grow serving non publishing company companies. Every school district and non profit organization is a potential publisher.

Meanwhile Amazon still has to get visibility. I seem to remember that they purchased an OnDemand book printer about a year ago. More recently they required book on demand offerings to be printed through their production facilities to be sold at the Amazon. Given that they sell direct to the public, instead of the traditional book value chain, Amazon may turn out to be the sleeping giant.