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Title: Machine publishes and dispenses books
Source: Iconoclast Investor
URL Source: http://www.iconoclast-investor.com/
Published: Oct 3, 2009
Author: Elyse Andrews
Post Date: 2009-10-04 07:28:36 by Tatarewicz
Keywords: Expresso, prints, paperbacks
Views: 309
Comments: 3

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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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

I wonder if it's just text, or can it do color plates as well?

Either way, even if it was just text it would be awesome to have one of these in a library where if a book is lost, it could be replaced.

Better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not.

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2009-10-04   7:42:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Pretty cool.

Might be a giant damper for bookstores like B&N, Amazon, etc.

Just imagine how busy such machines would be with the Palin book. They'd be running 24/7.

TooConservative  posted on  2009-10-04   11:00:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Text and images are available in B&W and (probably) one color. EBM prints at the rate of 150 pages/minute but (scanning) images take longer. Penny/page up to 830 pages. Ultimately EBM will make possible to distribute every book ever published in any language, anywhere on earth. The $100,000 unit is made in New York. I guess we'll have to wait for the Chinese to get a hold of it to get an affordable home model.

www.ondemandbooks.com/home.htm

Tatarewicz  posted on  2009-10-05   4:43:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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