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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Mettee believes Amazon.com will eventually use book-at-a-time technology for most of its orders, thereby improving the bottom line for publishers by way of lower printing, freight and warehousing costs.
“You have to think of this as a re-supply system and not one particular tool,” Conley says of the range of new technologies coming into play. “You will still have web offset, you will still have centralized digital print for scale, and a distributed inventory-replenishment model [based on some form of localized digital printing]. The platform is far more diverse than what you had five years ago.”
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