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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“The focus of the [Google] project is simply to make that database available for people to see, not necessarily for print, but if you can find a way to make those files printable, it opens up a huge market, and you simply have to have the ability to fulfill it,” Conley says.
While no successful business model has yet been put forth to capitalize on the vast quantity of new material being made available (a large portion of what Google is scanning is out-of-print books, and many are in the public domain), Conley believes book-at-a-time is one viable option. (Others include standard, centralized on-demand print fulfillment, which at this point is cheaper for libraries than investing in a book-making machine, he says.)
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