The 'Mr. Coffee' of Bookmaking
A close-up look at the Espresso Book Machine and InstaBook Maker, and the future of book-at-a-time technology.
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Perfect Timing?
As it turns out, the timing could not be better for book-at-a-time to be introduced in libraries, just when these institutions are grappling with the implications of the Google Book Search settlement. “Because of the Google settlement, I think libraries will begin to try to find a way to generate revenue,” Neller says. “You have something like 15,000 public libraries in America, all with very good real estate. They all sit right in the town center where everybody goes. Why shouldn’t they start thinking of themselves not just as a place to warehouse books? Why not offer them for sale?”
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