For awhile now, there’s been a murmuring in the background about onsite printing presses. Imagine walking into your local bookstore , ordering your book and it’s printed up for you on the spot. Harvard’s trying it. As is the Northshire Bookstore in Vermont. Now, rare books will become more readily available thanks to the Espresso Book Machine.
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[…] means printing books as they are ordered, perhaps on site as Harvard’s doing. As mentioned before, The Northshire Bookstore in Vermont has had success with print on demand, too. […]