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Vending Machine For Books Coming Next Year
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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Flawed analogy. A salad is a consumable item that is eaten. A single track of music is something that does disappear upon the conclusion of listening to it.
DRM is an artificial restriction to degrade the normal freedoms one has with music. A serving of salad is limited by definition.