#29863 - 09/20/09 07:44 AM
Re: Google Lets You Custom-Print Millions of Books
[Re: Nemesis]
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Meq
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For those who want to save trees, but don't like the idea of squinting over a computer monitor to read a 'book', there are always digital book readers like the Amazon Kindle (currently US only):

Then again, such devices are hardly cheap (at least yet), plus there will always be those huge fans of old-fashioned paper and ink.
I wonder what the costs are for Google's custom-printed books when it comes to large tomes? I'll see if I can get a quote for War and Peace 
It shouldn't be long before such books are available for delivery via parcel post, at least if there is enough demand.
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#29869 - 09/20/09 12:31 PM
Re: Google Lets You Custom-Print Millions of Books
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Nemesis
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I wonder what the costs are for Google's custom-printed books when it comes to large tomes? I'll see if I can get a quote for War and Peace ;\) ...those booksellers that have ordered its $100,000 Espresso Book Machine, which cranks out a 300 page gray-scale book with a color cover in about 4 minutes, at a cost to the bookstore of about $3 for materials. The machine prints the pages, binds them together perfectly, and then cuts the book to size and then dumps a book out, literally hot off the press, with a satisfying clunk. (The company says a machine can print about 60,000 books a year.)
On Demand Books suggests that book stores price the books at about $8, leaving retailers with a $3 profit after both Google and On Demand Books collect a buck-a-book fee.
Since you're not having to pay for the profit that is integrated into copyright-protected books, all you'll be paying for is materials and a cut for the bookstore that's printing them. Pretty reasonable, I'd say
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#30213 - 10/02/09 11:39 AM
Re: Google Lets You Custom-Print Millions of Books
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mattie
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Oh, sweet evil Jesus! This is truly wonderful! Nemesis, thank you for posting this.
If, like me, you don't live near any of these machines, they will ship these books domestically or internationally from here:
http://www.harvard.com/bookmachine/
I'm already making a list!
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