This was just twittered (tweeted) by BudtheTeacher:Â First Espresso Book Machine Installed and Demonstrated at New York Public Library’s Science, Industry and Business Library
The machine, being demoed at New York Public, currently prints copies of public domain titles on demand.
The direct-to-consumer model of the EBM eliminates shipping and warehousing costs for books (thereby also eliminating returns and pulping of unsold books) and allows simultaneous global availability of millions of new and backlist titles in all categories and languages. These savings permit potentially lower prices to consumers and libraries, and greater royalties and profits to authors and publishers. Also, titles will never have to go out of print again.
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This post made me think of the iPod vending machine I saw in Las Vegas ( http://tinyurl.com/2nsre8 ) Wouldn’t it be cool if you could go to an Audio Book vending machine, pay and get an inexpensive audio book with the player built in too.
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