Most Print on demand services' contracts get only nonexclusive digital and republishing rights, and will be terminated when needed. Print on demand cost services enable authors set book costs and control profits, but most services establish prices supported printing expenditures, and pay the author a specific percentage. Print on demand services the items they present self-publishing - but there are significant dissimilarities between a Print on demand service and true self-publishing.

Print on demand is really the term for the digital printing technology which allows an entire book to be imprinted and bound within a couple of minutes. Digital printing makes it easy and affordable to make books 1 or 2 at an equivalent time or in little lots, instead of in larger print runs of a couple of hundred or thousand.