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Just checked, interestingly it is still available for on demand order via other channels. Wonder if they still print it and only delist on their own frontend [0]. Maybe it is a bit of compensation if they profit from the Streisand effect.

Regarding Amazon I find it funny that they actually engage quite a few people e.g. for tech support of end users. I think they know where to optimize..

[0] https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/suggestartikel/A1067374317

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> interestingly it is still available for on demand order via other channels

Where, if you don't mind my asking? This would make an excellent birthday gift for a good friend and I'd prefer to get her the print edition, but a quick search is failing to turn up anywhere that offers an actual hardcopy besides Amazon.

I'm trying to remember what service we considered, when an organization that wrote a book self-published (I was on the committee to write the book).

We ended up actually commissioning normal printing, and selling the book, ourselves (it was quite successful, if I say so, myself. We made our money back in about a month), but we did consider a service that allowed you to sell print-on-demand. They ran the store, and the printer. You could also move eBooks through them.

This was many years ago, and memory fails me.

Memory jogged. It was Lulu. Looked pretty good, but that was many years ago.

This was just a random German online book seller that are connected to a major distribution system. I don't know how it is elsewhere in the world, we in Germany have just a fe major distributors. I remember when publishing my PhD thesis I could chose if I wanted a ISBN and allow global distribution, when self publishing on Amazon (was much cheaper than any other options that required my to buy a batch). Actually small publishers have been living a lot of PhD theses in Germany, but nowadays electronic publication is allowed and not everyone has boxes of their manuscript in the basement as it used to be.

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