What do you predict for the publishing industry in the next couple of years?

What do you predict for the publishing industry in the next couple of years?

Derek Johns (Managing Director - AP Watt Literary Agency) gives expert video advice on: What's the next 'big thing' in publishing?; Is it a good idea to post my writing online?; What do you predict for the publishing industry in the next couple of years? and more...

In the next several years we'll see increasing consolidation of publishers, publishers merging and taking over other publishers. We will see increasing worldwide publications of certain books; the same publisher will publish a book in many different countries. But I think the most interesting thing that will happen is that we will see the print-on-demand revolution. We will see books that otherwise can't be kept in print being printed because one person wants to buy them.