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Leading Publishers Stay in Stock on Amazon.com with BookSurge's Print on Demand Service.

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NEW YORK -- BookSurge LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN), today announced agreements with major publishers to use BookSurge's Print on Demand service to make their current, backlist, out-of-print and large print books available to millions of customers on Amazon.com and through other distribution channels. Participating publishers now include HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Springer, Gale, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, SAGE Publications, Kensington, Hal Leonard, LexisNexis, and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA).

The Print on Demand service also enables publishers to improve the availability of their midlist and frontlist titles on Amazon.com by combining on-demand distribution with physical inventory distribution. The service eliminates inventory risk for publishers because they no longer have to carry inventory for these titles. Titles offered through Print on Demand are available to Amazon.com customers...