![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone wins: Jeff Bezos, HarperCollins, and especially Mom and Pop. Buyers could order the book on Amazon, pop into their local bookstore that day and pick up the genuine article, free of shipping costs. “Imagine libraries being a place where you can get books and Staples, Kinko’s, coffee shops.” In two years, he says, “We’ll be having a different conversation.”īut wait, isn’t the printed page done for? Neller doesn’t think so - why would he? - and insists that his machine will complement the likes of Google and the Kindle. He’s talking to lots of chains, and not just bookstores. But millions of books are being digitized, and, Neller says he’ll have them soon enough. “It’s a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg the first question a retailer has is how much content we have.” As of now, in addition to “millions” of public-domain books, the machine can only access about 175,000 backlist titles (you’d need to sell a couple thousand copies a year to make it worth your while). stores (which usually lease them), is far from its tipping point. The store has no comment, and Dane Neller, the CEO of Espresso makers On Demand Books, will say only that “we will have a machine in the fall in a cool New York store and another one in a major New York university.” He concedes that the $75,000 Espresso, currently in about a dozen indie U.S. And as of this fall, we have it on good authority, New York’s first permanent machine will be cranking out paperbacks at Soho’s McNally Jackson Books. Well, EBM 2.0 is three times smaller, three times faster, and half as expensive. But in 2006, the Espresso Book Machine was better in theory than in practice - fifteen feet long and achingly slow. ![]() You may have heard a few years back (See: Highbrow-Brilliant) about a neat device that can pump out made-to-order books while you watch. A convenient way to print that LOLcat book. ![]()
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