Creators keep their rights
We licence nothing, claim nothing, and can't stop you printing the same book elsewhere tomorrow. Manufacturing is the product.
We think the warehouse was the mistake
Publishing has always guessed how many copies a book would sell, printed that many, and destroyed the difference. We built the infrastructure that makes the guess unnecessary.
B Corp since 2016
Recertified 2025 with a score of 104.7.
Six countries
412 people, mostly remote.
Why we exist
Roughly a quarter of every trade print run is destroyed unread
Not damaged, not returned by accident — deliberately pulped, because forecasting demand for a book is genuinely difficult and the cost of guessing high is lower than the cost of guessing low. That trade-off made sense when a press run of five hundred was the smallest economically sane unit.
It stopped making sense around 2012. Digital presses got good enough that a run of one costs roughly what a run of one thousand costs per copy, and logistics networks got dense enough that "print it near the reader" became a routing problem rather than a fantasy. What was missing was the software layer — the boring, unglamorous plumbing that connects a file to a press to a doorstep, reliably, in every country, at any volume.
That's the entire company. We are not a publisher, we have no editorial opinion about your book, and we don't want a percentage of your rights. We run presses and we run the API in front of them.
2002
Founded in Morrisville, North Carolina
412
People across six countries
32
Partner facilities on six continents
41M
Books manufactured to date
How we operate
Four things we won't trade away
These are the ones that have cost us money at least once and survived anyway.
Published prices
Every rate is on the pricing page, including volume tiers. Nobody gets a better number for asking louder.
Print where it's read
Regional routing is default, not premium. It's cheaper, faster and it's the single biggest thing we do for emissions.
Boring reliability
A missed print date is somebody's book launch. We publish uptime, incident history and on-time rates whether they flatter us or not.
Waste vs. offset printing−94%
Orders printed in-region88%
FSC® certified stock100%
Renewable-powered facilities61%
Independently verified by the B Impact Assessment, 2025 cycle.
Impact
The most sustainable book is the one nobody had to pulp
We don't buy our way out of this with offsets. On-demand manufacturing removes the waste at source, and regional routing removes most of the freight behind it. What's left, we measure and publish annually.
- 1.9M copies not printed, and therefore not destroyed, in 2025
- 100% FSC® chain-of-custody stock at every partner press
- Plastic-free packaging across the whole network since 2023
- Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions published in full
The catalogue
A few of the books we printed this week
Every one of these was manufactured after somebody ordered it — no warehouse, no forecast, no pulping.
214,860 titles are live across the network right now.
Timeline
Two decades, abbreviated
The parts that changed what the company actually does.
Two founders, a leased digital press, and 41 titles printed in the first year — all of them for people they knew personally.
v1 of the print API shipped with four endpoints. Within six months, more jobs arrived through the API than through the web app, which permanently changed what we thought we were building.
Instead of shipping from North Carolina, orders started printing in Wrocław, Bologna and Birmingham. Freight costs fell 41% and delivery windows halved.
Variable-data printing at a quantity of one, priced identically to a standard job. Personalized gift books and, later, generated-content publishing were built on top of it.
The network passed 32 partner facilities and color matching was standardised across all of them, so a title looks the same whether it prints in Ohio or Osaka.
A dedicated team for publishers moving 1,000+ dormant titles to on-demand. 4,100 titles migrated for the first customer in a single quarter.
We're hiring across print ops and platform
Nineteen open roles in Morrisville, Wrocław, Bristol and fully remote — including three on the press-integration team.