I subscribe to Dan Poynter's ezine and his U-Publish blog. Today I learned that there's a way to publish "POD/Print On Demand" books and actually print them right in the bookstore.
For those of us whose books aren't going to make the N.Y. Times Bestseller list, this is something to look into. Here are some FAQs from The Espresso Book Machine's website: http://www.ondemandbooks.com/faq.htm
Can you just see it - coffeehouses with poetry readings, printing out copies of poetry books for the authors to sign - while we're standing in line waiting to meet them. Amazing.