25 Jun
Espresso Book Machine at New York Public Library
I previously blogged about On Demand Books‘ Espresso Book Machine. And I think the first non-beta machine has just been installed at the New York Public Library’s Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL).
And from August,
Library users will have the opportunity to print free copies of such public domain classics as “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” by Mark Twain, “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville, “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens and “Songs of Innocence” by William Blake, as well as appropriately themed in-copyright titles as Chris Anderson’s “The Long Tail” and Jason Epstein’s own “Book Business.”
You read the full press release on PRWeb.
(via Engadget)
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Posted by QQ*librarian on 25.06.07 at 12:28 pm
My goodness! If the picture of the machine is anything to go by, I do wonder how portable it is. It reminds me of what a computer looks like before it became personal (as in PC).
Posted by Isaak Kwok on 25.06.07 at 12:28 pm
Well, I think the machine is THAT big because it needs to print, collate and bind the pages into a book. It’s like one of those industrial printers. I’ve seen an even bigger one at one of my old workplace. It takes up an entire room.
The EBM might not be that portable from the looks of it, but it is definitely more mobile than the computers of old.