"Espresso Book Machine" - Google To Reincarnate Digital Books As Paperbacks

Google To Reincarnate Digital Books As Paperbacks

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http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_13357835

Google is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be
reincarnated as paperbacks. As part of a deal announced Thursday, Google
is opening up part of its index to the maker of a high-speed publishing
machine that can manufacture a paperback-bound book of about 300 pages in
under five minutes. The new service is an acknowledgment by the Internet
search leader that not everyone wants their books served up on a computer
or an electronic reader like those made by Amazon.com and Sony.

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The "Espresso Book Machine"
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso_Book_Machine ] has been around for
several years, but it figures to become a hotter commodity now that it has
access to so many books scanned from some of the world's largest
libraries. And On Demand Books, the Espresso's maker, potentially could
get access to even more hard-to-find books if Google wins court approval
of a class-action settlement giving it the right to sell out-of-print
books.

"This is a seminal event for us," said Dane Neller, On Demand Books' chief
executive, as he oversaw a demonstration of the Espresso Book Machine
Wednesday at Google's Mountain View headquarters.

In the background, some of the books that Google spent the past five years
scanning into a digital format were returning to their paper origins.

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http://www.ondemandbooks.com/home.htm

What Gutenberg's press did for Europe in the 15th century, digitization
and the Espresso Book Machine®
will do for the world tomorrow.

Library quality paperbacks at low cost, identical to factory made books,
printed direct from digital files for the reader in minutes, serving a
radically decentralized world-wide multilingual marketplace.

Espresso: something made to order, one at a time, at point of sale, quickly.

Our EBM Locations
http://www.ondemandbooks.com/our_ebm_locations.htm
Video of The Espresso Book Machine 2.0
http://www.ondemandbooks.com/video2.htm
NEWSFLASH: On Demand Books and Google Sign Agreement
http://www.ondemandbooks.com/ODB%20and%20Google%20Press%20Release%2009-17-09.pdf