So people can self publish now? On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Jerry Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/18/google.books/index.html > > 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. > > Or at least by those booksellers that have ordered its $100,000 Espresso > Book Machine, which cranks out a 300 page gray-scale book with a color cover > in about 4 minutes, at a cost to the bookstore of about $3 for materials. > The machine prints the pages, binds them together perfectly, and then cuts > the book to size and then dumps a book out, literally hot off the press, > with a satisfying clunk. (The company says a machine can print about 60,000 > books a year.) > > That means you can stop into the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, > Vermont, and for less than $10, custom-order your own copy of Dame Curtsey's > Book of Candy Making, the third edition of which was published in 1920 and > which can only be found online for $47.00 used. >
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