FAQ POD service

FAQ POD service

FAQ POD service


Here you can find information about the POD service with a distributor.


POD, Print On Demand, is an innovative service dedicated to publishers that use a distributor for the sale of its books.
The POD service allows you to print books on demand, meaning that the book will no longer be physically present in book stores, but can however be ordered by the end customer.

The printing process will be activated only after a book has been ordered by a customer, even for just one copy. In this way the publisher no longer has to manage and maintain a physical store of the copies of a title, but simply a "virtual" store.

For more information, please visit the service description page by clicking here.

Print On Demand (POD) is a printing technology used to print new copies of a book only after receipt of an order for the book. This means that books can also be printed one at a time.

The publisher decides to catalogue some of its titles as POD

It enters into the POD contract with Rotomail Italia and the distributor, and activates the service, signing up with the website and entering its titles into the archive (pdf and technical information)

A customer orders a book catalogued as POD in one of the book stores/points of sale (traditional and on-line) managed by distributor

Distributor collects the orders from all the sales channels and sends a file containing the title and the number of copies to produce to Rotomail Italia every day.

Rotomail Italia makes the books ordered and delivers them to distributor

Distributor takes care of distribution: it delivers the books to the book store or to the end customer, depending on the initial request.

The POD service is dedicated exclusively to all publishers that use a distributor for the sale of its books.

If you are a publisher distributed by Messaggerie Libri, visit the dedicated website: www.podeditori.it.

If you are not a publisher distributed by Messaggerie Libricontact us.

If you are a distributor and you want to activate the POD service for your publishers, contact us.

Actually POD service is active only for publishers distributed by Messaggerie Libri. 

If you are a publisher distributed by Messaggerie Libri, visit the dedicated website: www.podeditori.it.

If you are not a publisher distributed by Messaggerie Libricontact us.

If you are a distributor and you want to activate the POD service for your publishers, contact us.