A few years ago Adina’s parents were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. “My siblings and I wanted to do something special — that goes without saying ” she recalls. “But everyone had their own idea of what ‘special’ meant. “I really wanted to compile a family history with lots of photos and make it into a nice book something that my grandkids could read when they got older and got curious about our family’s past. I contacted a few publishers to see how much such a book would cost and I was in shock. I was hearing price quotes of $10 000 and even more. There was no way I could ask my siblings to pay so much money considering we were paying for the hall and catering and in some cases plane tickets.” Instead of a book Adina made a short PowerPoint presentation that took the extended family down memory lane. It was a big hit but when her laptop computer died the presentation died with it since she hadn’t backed it up. However her original idea of creating a book doesn’t have to meet the same fate. There’s been a revolution in the publishing industry and the new print-on-demand (POD) technology has made printing a book incredibly easy and inexpensive. And even though POD is mainly associated with aspiring authors hoping to sell a million copies of their self-published novel more and more people are discovering that it works just fine for a print run of ten or even just one copy.