The Espresso Book Machine is a kiosk-style printing press that stood to revolutionize both book printing and book selling, at least at the beginning. These stand-alone machines were envisioned to virtually replace bookshops, meaning the customer of the future would enter a significantly smaller retail space that was completely void of any printed material, select the book from … [Read more...] about Espresso Book Machine Streamlining a Subset of Self-Publishing
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In-Store Book Printing Comes to Retail Locations
OnDemand Books unveiled exciting kiosk-based technology in the last couple of years with its user friendly Espresso Book Machines. These print-on-demand interfaces potentially have the opportunity to change the book industry by allowing bookstores to offer almost limitless works without having to stock expensive inventory and ship heavy titles to their physical locations. … [Read more...] about In-Store Book Printing Comes to Retail Locations
Espresso Book Machine and POD’s Digital Arm
One of the surprises of the panel discussions at today’s Digital Book World conference was the amount of talk about print-on-demand, both of its benefits and its drawbacks. While some of the talk was about how not enough emphasis is being put on POD as a viable program option for authors, and more than one industry professional maintained the opinion that print-on-demand will … [Read more...] about Espresso Book Machine and POD’s Digital Arm
Hewlett Packard Brings New Life to Old Books through POD
Hewlett Packard, a long-time industry leader in printing, introduced two new business models at this year’s BookExpo. The first was very similar to OnDemand Books’ Espresso Business Machine, in which individual titles of books can be printed, bound, and covered on-site in any location that it services with the HP product. While this model may not be ideal for every retail … [Read more...] about Hewlett Packard Brings New Life to Old Books through POD