Vending Machine For Books Coming Next Year

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 22, 2006 @07:23PM from the i've-heard-of-worse-ideas dept.

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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Re:hear that sound? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-12-22 20:03 · Score: -1, Flamebait

If only there was some transportation method that could travel across or above the waters surrounding Australia. Like say, a boat. Or a plane. And motivation for the expansion of the vending machine program to such a pissant country. Like say, currency.