{"id":192210,"date":"2009-04-28T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/28\/f-kindle-this-is-something-that-will-revolutionize-publishing\/"},"modified":"2009-04-28T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T22:20:00","slug":"f-kindle-this-is-something-that-will-revolutionize-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/28\/f-kindle-this-is-something-that-will-revolutionize-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"F$#@ Kindle, This is Something that Will Revolutionize Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s called the Espresso Book Machine<\/a>, and it prints books on demand.<\/p>\n

It literally prints the book and binds it in about 5 minutes from an order.<\/p>\n

If you were to integrate a scanner\/shredder to do book “returns”, you could eventually run a bookstore without any physical delivery, and only stock those books you sell, plus preprinting stock to put out on your shelves for the things that move faster.<\/p>\n

Right now, it’s primarily handling out of copyright works, but the manufacturer is looking to add in copyright works.<\/p>\n

List for the machine is about $175,000.00, but that should pay for itself fairly quickly, if just by generating sales that take 5 minutes to deliver, as opposed to 2 weeks, so the customer goes elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The big problem, of course, is that book publishers will insist that this new technology will require an even higher<\/span> profit margin on their part, just like record distributors did with CDs when they came out, even though they were cheaper than vinyl.<\/p>\n

Unlike Amazon’s\u00ae<\/sup> Kindle\u00ae<\/sup>, they can’t turn a book into a $359.00 doorstop because you have a billing or return dispute.<\/p>\n

Of course, XKCD was all over this:
<\/a>
Or not, but it’s funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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