From ProPrint Australia:
The printing industry is so far unconcerned about the arrival in Australia of the so-called ‘ATM for books’ – a machine which prints, trims and binds a paperback book on demand in around ten minutes.
Book retailer Angus and Robertson unveiled the Espresso Book Machine (EBM) at its Bourke Street store in Melbourne last month, saying that the machine would also be rolled out in 50 of its stores across Australia, with the technology geared towards enabling customers to find rare or out-of-print titles.
With the EBM essentially offering print-on-demand – or, as it’s known in some circles, ‘print/book of one’ – there is some debate that printers and publishers now face the same problems as the music, movie and television industries have faced with digital downloads [more...]
[via booktrade.info]
