Google Lets You Custom-Print Millions of Public Domain Books
Over the last seven years, Google has scanned millions of dusty tomes from deep in the stacks of the nation’s leading university libraries and turned them into searchable documents available anywhere in the world through its search box.
And now Google Book Search, in partnership with On Demand Books, is letting readers turn those digital copies back into paper copies, individually printed by bookstores around the world.
Here's some video footage of the Espresso machine in action:
The Espresso Book Machine® is a fully integrated patented book making machine which can automatically print, bind and trim on demand at point of sale perfect bound library quality paperback books with 4-color cover indistinguishable from their factory made versions.
EBM Version 2.0 |
The Espresso book machine prints a book at the Blackwell bookstore in central London.
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clipped from booksearch.blogspot.com
clipped from www.ondemandbooks.com
