Freshly printed book anyone?
Written by Olivier Adam on Monday, 18 May 2009 12:13
Many would argue that the life of books is counted. Indeed, it seems that with tools like the Amazon Kindle and other of the genre, books (and newspapers) will become a niche product at best in the future. On the other hand, some will argue that it is quite satisfying to open a fresh new book and to devour the pages, discovering what is inside. The Espresso book machine plans to create a solution right in the middle. Instead of printing millions of books, many of them will end up being unsold (or sold at a tenth of the price in the bookstore discount bin), this machine allows you to print books "on-demand". What is quite interesting is that this machine gives the possibility to offer a very large choice of publications, with a very limited space. It would become more interesting to have very specialized publications available, as the cost of keeping those would be nearly non-existent. Hopefully, we will start seeing those machines in our bookstores, libraries, etc. soon so we can start benefiting from all it can bring us.