In downtown Portland one recent Tuesday before lunch, I watched five and a half centuries of book-printing ingenuity compressed into a seven-minute process. A small crowd had gathered on the landing ...

I swung by Powell's on my lunch break to check out the new Espresso Book Machine, a print-on-demand bookmaking machine that draws from a catalog of more than seven million books—public domain stuff ...

McNally Jackson in New York is one of a growing number of bookstores that can print on demand. The store has recently installed an Espresso Book Machine, a printer that can produce a high-quality ...

CINCINNATI (Perry Schaible) - The Cincinnati Public Library unveiled a new book-printing machine. Users can get a book on demand in just minutes. This is a big deal for the Cincinnati Public Library, ...

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 ...

Following the death of legendary Random House editor Jason Epstein in February, many tributes pointed to his various publishing innovations, including his final creation, On Demand Books, maker of the ...

Self-publishing is nothing new, and thanks to online publishers like Amazon’s CreateSpace, it’s also never been easier. If you can put words on paper, you can publish a book. (The erotic stylings of E ...

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The Espresso Book Machine, which will make up one component of the kiosk (by Politics and Prose Bookstore on Flickr) Thanks to a new partnership, you’ll soon be able to pick up a new book with your ...

The Espresso book machine prints and binds books "in library quality, with minimal human intervention." It is the kind of thing I would like to have... only it costs upwards of 80k$. Even though it ...

Print-on-demand, the technology that lets you print and bind a paperback book in a matter of minutes with nary a press in sight, hasn't exactly lived up to its promise of revolutionising publishing.