From the Books Go Digital... Then Go Back department:
CNN Money reports that a company called On Demand Books has developed a $50,000 vending machine called the Espresso. No, this machine doesn't pour you cups of highly concentrated coffee. The Espresso is a print on demand book vending machine. With over 2.5 million books available in its database, a handful of the machines are set to go live in approximately 25 bookstores and libraries later this year. The vending machine can print, align, mill, glue, bind two books simultaneously in less than seven minutes, including full-color laminated covers, and render my resume worthless. I'll bet the machine doesn't have a pretentious attitude or talk down to the customers though! You'll miss that when it's gone!
(CNN Money)
(CNN Money)
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1 Comments:
On one hand, this feels like technology coming back around and eating its own tail. On the other, it is perfectly in keeping with the industrial-revolution need to remove humans from all interactions. Like selling you a real, tree-based book.
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