Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Mass.,has unveiled the Expresso Book Machine which prints a paperback book for $8 in four minutes at the press of a button. OnDemandBooks, the machine's creator, has about 1.6-million titles in its catalog and with Google's contribution, the total number of titles to choose from comes to about 3.6-million. Some of the other bookstores that will house the $100,000 Expresso are: Boxcar and Caboose Bookshop in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont; Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, Washington; Village Books in Bellingham; and Schuler Book in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Customers can also order books online and pick them up in the store or even have them delivered.
Tatarewicz: Sounds like something every public library should have.
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