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• 24 Dec 06
  

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  Books Printing Vending_Machines

• 23 Dec 06
  

  juan

  books distribiution

  • "CNN writes about a $50,000 machine that can  print books on demand. It can print up to 550 pages and put a binding on the  book in seven minutes. It will be debuting in a select number of U.S. libraries  in 2007. The machine is the 'output' end of a service called On Demand Books
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  •   An anonymous reader writes "CNN writes about a $50,000 machine that can print books on demand. It can print up to 550 pages and put a binding on the book in seven minutes. It will be debuting in a select number of U.S. libraries in 2007. The machine is the 'output' end of a service called On Demand Books, which is also just debuting. From the article: 'Some 2.5 million books are now available - about one million in English and no longer under copyright protection. On Demand accesses the volumes through Google and the Open Content Alliance, among other sources. [Co-founder Dane] Neller predicts that within about five years On Demand Books will be able to reproduce every volume ever printed.'"

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