Print On Demand - Zeitfracht Medien

OUR PRINT-ON-DEMAND SERVICE

Print books on demand, not in stock

In addition to the immediate availability and topicality of titles, the biggest challenge is maintaining cultural diversity in the book market. Our print-on-demand service gives publishers and bookshops the flexibility they need. For titles whose stock production and storage is no longer economically viable, we produce on demand and just in time: namely when an order is received.

YOUR ADVANTAGES

Print-on-demand offers publishers every opportunity

Fast availability

Book diversity without risk

Sales potential and cost efficiency

Fully integrated process chain

Best print quality

Protecting the environment

THE POD PROCESS AT ZEITFRACHT

4 steps to more diversity on the book market

LISTING

We stock physical books for retailers - supplemented by countless digital titles. Novelties, niches and future bestsellers.

ORDER INPUT

A bookshop orders PoD titles. Whether one or more identical copies or many different books is irrelevant.

PRODUCTION

We produce the ordered title within two hours. Fast & reliable.

LOGISTICS

Just in time: PoD titles and conventionally stored books are fed together into the downstream logistics processes.

OVER 1.5 MILLION PRINT-ON-DEMAND TITLES AVAILABLE

And there are more every day

Corporate constitution

from Schewe, Gerhard

Springer: 9783662580011

Vaccinology and Methods in Vaccine Research

by Rebecca Ashfield et al.

Elsevier: 9780323911467

The Translation Studies Reader

by Lawrence Venuti

Taylor & Francis: 9780367235970

The strangeness of animals

by Henrike Herdramm

WBG: 9783534300129

NOW I HELP MYSELF, 250, BMW 1 SERIES

from Korp, Dieter

Paul Pietsch: 9783613026117

Knightstone Academy - Do not desire us

from Rain, Christina

Epubli: 978-3-7575-5251-0

OPTIMAL SUPPLY CHAIN AT OUR LOCATION IN ERFURT

From printing to delivery, we bundle all services under one roof.

You too can benefit from Zeitfracht's unique combination in Germany of publishing house delivery, bar assortment and book production integrated into logistics.
Your all-round solution for maximum efficiency.

SUSTAINABLE BOOK PRINTING

For the sake of the environment

Production directly in logistics and close to the actual sales figures is the most resource-efficient way of producing books. Only certified raw materials are used for print-on-demand production. Let's make book printing more sustainable together! Read our sustainability report here.

No overproduction

No shrink wrap

100 % green electricity

Efficient transport logistics

VOICES FROM THE PUBLISHERS

These publishers are convinced by Zeitfracht

Seamless process

Working with Zeitracht has expanded our reach and was a seamless process, with full support given by Zeitfracht and CPI along the way

Dean Eddies, UK & Export Sales Manager, Infopro Digital Automotive

Quick & easy

We are delighted that the expanded cooperation means that a significantly larger number of titles from our publishing program are available via Zeitfracht and that customers can now receive them much more quickly.

Alexander Faust, Director Production and Internal Operations, De Gruyter

Seamless coverage of demand

As one of the largest German-language special interest book publishing groups, Paul Pietsch Publishers currently has a backlist of over 3,250 active titles. Thanks to Zeitfracht's print-on-demand services, we have been able to significantly extend the life cycle of our range of titles since 2015, thus ensuring the permanent availability of our backlist and virtually seamless coverage of demand - especially for backlist titles with smaller demand volumes. By actively digitizing out-of-print archive titles in parallel, we are also continuously expanding our portfolio and have now transferred a total of 1,100 titles to the POD process - with a manageable publishing risk.

Christian Pflug, Head of Sales & Marketing, Paul Pietsch Verlage GmbH & Co. KG

Excellent quality

The Peter Lang Group is thrilled to expand cooperation with Zeitfracht as a trusted business partner for print-on-demand supply of our titles in multiple languages. The speed to market and excellent quality Zeitfracht provides will surely benefit the Peter Lang total customer experience whether it be bookshop, library, or individual.

Arnaud Béglé, CEO Peter Lang Group

Successful collaboration

POD is the decisive building block in self-publishing, especially in connection with a direct link to the bar range. This is why we have enjoyed working successfully with Zeitfracht for several years. We particularly appreciate the professionalism in the processes and the individual and courteous customer service.

Sebastian Stude, CEO Neopubli GmbH

Avoiding remissions and unnecessary transport routes

Springer Nature supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With our SDG program, we want to promote the exchange between researchers and practitioners in politics and business by making research results on the pressing challenges of the present visible through many channels.

Printing on Demand, or PoD for short, is an important component in the marketing and distribution of our products. The following advantages are decisive for us, but also for our business partners:

We avoid returns and unnecessary transportation.

In addition, PoD is the only economically viable way for us as a scientific publisher with around 300k+ available titles to keep our program available in all its breadth and depth.

Brigitte Breuer, Director Trade Sales DACH Springer Nature

OUR STRONG PARTNER

Printing group CPI is the technology leader in digital printing

Together with our partner CPI, we are taking off in demand-oriented book printing. The printing group is one of the leading providers in the European printing market and a pioneer in digital printing. CPI was the first printing company in Europe to invest in digital inkjet printing. At our logistics site in Erfurt, the printing expert produces all PoD titles using the latest printing and binding technology.

FAQ

Your most important questions about our print-on-demand service

As part of a service contract, you grant Zeitfracht the rights to print, reproduce and distribute your title for the duration of the contract. All other rights naturally remain with you. You can also withdraw these rights for individual titles from Zeitfracht at any time.

No. You can have the title listed and printed by Zeitfracht Medien GmbH as well as by any other market participant. There is no exclusive contract with Zeitfracht.

In principle, participation in our PoD process is not associated with any costs. There are therefore no "participation fees". Both data storage and the listing of titles are initially free of charge. Only when a book is produced and sold is a charge made. The printing costs depend on the annual printing volume or the number of titles listed.

Thanks to the print-on-demand process, we guarantee an optimized supply chain. This means full integration of PoD into Zeitfracht's catalog, ordering and logistics processes. When titles are recorded, the data is integrated into the leading bibliography system pcbis.de and other industry systems. This means that more than 5,500 booksellers can order your title from us at any time. Each bar range title is also integrated into the customer-specific online stores.

We can print both softcover and hardcover from A6 to A4 for you.

Yes, we are also happy to produce very short print runs (print to stock) for you to use yourself and for your publishing distribution. We also offer the option of having PoD titles delivered directly to the end customer. To do this, we build an interface to your publishing house or your publisher's delivery service (dropshipment). The shipment is delivered with your invoice in your corporate design.

Our softcover production takes less than 2.5 hours. Depending on the departure of the logistical tours, we can therefore offer same-day or next-day delivery. For hardcover books, we guarantee delivery within 3-5 working days.

The print data (cover and inner part) and the metadata file are provided via access to our FTP server or alternatively via a web portal. If your print data is already available in the database of our print service provider (CPI) (e.g. from previous offset productions), no data transfer is required.

The print-on-demand process with which our books are produced by CPI at the Erfurt site is powered exclusively by green electricity. We also avoid overproduction and waste, as all books are only produced to order. There are also no transportation routes between logistics and the print shop, as this takes place in one building at the Erfurt site. This significantly reduces our_{CO2 footprint}. Storage space is also not required. In addition, we do not have to shrink-wrap the books.

CURRENT PRESS RELEASES

The topic of print-on-demand has become very popular with many of our suppliers. With our PoD service, we make it possible to keep the backlist up to date, produce novelties risk-free, occupy niches, protect the environment and increase delivery speed.

Kay Wissendorf, Head of Print-on-Demand