My obsession with a genre term for books produced via blurb.com, lulu.com, etc started with a query from Rachel Stuhlman at the Eastman House. She had begun seeing photo books produced by artists using web-based print-on-demand resources. This is a place for me to keep notes on trying to find the right genre term.
LCSH has:
On-demand publications (sh94007924)
On-demand printing (sh97003623)
On-demand reprints (Publications) (sh94007925)
Instant printing (sh85106780) (scope note: Here are entered works on fast-turnaround printing from eye-readable copy. Works on printing large or small numbers of copies from a computer file stored for use when copies are needed are entered under On-demand printing.)
AAT has: On-demand printing; On-demand publications; On-demand publishing; On-demand reprints
Wikipedia has: Self-publishing
Amon Carter Museum Library is using: 655 _4 $a Print-on-demand books.
Message to ARLIS-L from David Senior, MoMA, 22 November 2011: subject line: digital journal, blog or tumblr as book
His query was specifically about books produced from blogs or electronic journals.
Noted in Printed Matter web catalog (31 October 2012):
The Serving Library (Dexter Sinister)
The Bulletins Of The Serving Library No.3
New York, NY: The Serving Library. 2012
cf http://printedmatter.org/catalogue/moreinfo.cfm?title_id=92540
websites for producing books:
blog2print.com
Blurb BookSmart (tutorial on "slurping" Flickr images into BookSmart)
Lulu - Lulu Studio for photo books
(both blurb and lulu use "print on demand" in the text on their websites)
"On-demand" or "Print-on-demand" doesn't address the self-publishing aspect. Does it matter? It seems to me that it is important, and David Senior's message seems to imply that what he wants a genre term for is something more than JUST print-on-demand books.
Cleveland Museum of Art had a whole exhibition (one-roomer) of photographer books produced on Blurb, Lulu, etc. cf http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2012/08/25/life/doc503561098ea54620520417.txt and http://www.worldcat.org/title/diy-photographers-books/oclc/806221280&referer=brief_results