This workshop will provide a background in the graphic design and production of short books and explore alternative printing, publishing and distribution strategies. The prevailing model of professional book production is firmly entrenched in the Fordist Assembly-Line. Writing, design, production, printing and distribution are each handled discretely by specialists as the project proceeds through a chain of command and production, where economies-of-scale and their required capital investment neccessarily limit who and what can be published. Recently, laserprinters, cellphones, photocopiers, page-layout softwares, instant messaging, word processors, and increasingly fluid communications networks have facilitated the shift to a Just-In- Time mode of print production. Books can be produced by a wider number of less-specialized individuals, design revisions could be made on-the-fly, quantities can be smaller and the distribution network more responsive. A book might reasonably be written by the designer who begins a layout and works with an editor who commissions a writer, and sources a printer to produce fifty copies by next Wednesday.