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  • Revolutionary Espresso Book Machine launches in London | Books | guardian.co.uk

    From the page: "Signalling the end, says Blackwell, to the frustration of being told by a bookseller that a title is out of print, or not in stock"[...] But also signalling the beginning, says I, to the frustration of being told by a bookseller that the machine's jammed again.... more

    Reviewed by kimodameshi Apr 26 2009, 11:24am ( 46 reviews ) • guardian.co.uk

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  • Rated by Erzeal on Jul 13, 7:34am

    Man!! We need these here! Now!

  • Rated by mogfather on May 11 2009, 5:01am

    heard about this a while ago. it is the future of bookselling, or at least has the potential to be.

  • Rated by khayos on May 09 2009, 12:33pm

    On-demand book binding! *love*

  • Rated by BiosyntheticLife on May 02 2009, 9:25pm

    There should be one of these in every library or mall in the world, With every book title available

  • Rated by inciv on Apr 30 2009, 12:48am

    From the page: "It's not elegant and it's not sexy â€" it looks like a large photocopier â€" but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible. Launching today at Blackwell's Charing Cross Road branch in London, the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait."

  • Rated by Siilk on Apr 27 2009, 4:41am

    A great innovation, indeed. You can get a book you need, even a rare or out of print. And if you need a foreign book (as I often do) there's no need to pay for delivery. 2 felinethespian: You probably don't knew that, but people often read books more than one time and keeping them for a long time, sometimes for the whole life. Books, which you wouldn't want to read again hardly worth reading in the first place.

  • Rated by TheGreekMind on Apr 27 2009, 1:35am

    This is amazing. @ felinethespian.... You do realize this thing prints books? You just referred to books as "a gigantic waste of paper and ink." But, that aside, yes, you can recycle them, if you so please, as they are made out of paper. Which is recyclable.

  • Rated by JazzyWings on Apr 26 2009, 9:50pm

    From the page: "the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait."