Comments on: Book Machine Making Modern Publishing Obsolete

By: Jerad Kaliher

Jerad Kaliher — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:39:13 +0000

Pisander Peter, if you’d like to gather more information you might want to reach the manufacturer of the Espresso Book Machine:

On Demand Books LLC
584 Broadway, Suite 1100
New York, NY 10012

Tel: (212) 966-2222, Fax: (212) 966-2229

By: Pisander Peter

Pisander Peter — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:39:49 +0000

It is my dream to have my own printing michine, the simple one so that I can operate it by my ownself. yet I can see that Book Michine it is a plus.

Please sent me more information on that book machine what about the vedo tape? Do you have one, send me one.

Thanks
Pisander Peter

By: Jerad Kaliher

Jerad Kaliher — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:27:01 +0000

@Drew Smith, the idea that you can cut down dramatically on inventory is such a great invention. I heard on the radio today that a few major bands are allowing you to buy music direct from their websites, cutting out all the middle men and keeping all the cash. Some even are allowing you to choose what price you think is fair.

I think that we are headed towards something interesting and characteristic of a new age. We are only seeing the first little blip with technologies like these. Who knows what is to come?

By: Drew Smith

Drew Smith — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:24:51 +0000

I’m excited by this. As the green-age of lifestyle and technology blossoms, we see applications for new ideas that we might not have hearkened during more industrially-motivated times. For instance, I see this modern printing press as a means to cut back on gratuitous inventory. I see applications in schools where, rather than releasing new editions of mostly standardized material, a university simply issues a license to its students to use the school’s Espresso Machine. With such a license, these students can print material as needed, rather than shelling out the hundreds of dollars required to own multiple volumes each year when, in reality, they may only need 100 of the prescribed 1000 pages of text.

Furthermore, publishers can cease to print new editions by simply submitting all literature to a database and amending the literature as required. Then it will become clear whether it is money or the pursuit of knowledge which motivates them.

By: Jerad Kaliher

Jerad Kaliher — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:09:08 +0000

@Veronique: E-Paper looks to be promising, but from what I can tell it is going to be quite a bit down the road before we actually begin to use it. Especially if we want anything in multi-colors.

As far as the ‘fall’ of the music and publishing industries… it’s not the fall of these industries that I want to trumpet. It is the emergence of new industries that technology like this allow us to expand to. As of now publishing companies are able to print a book based on it’s popularity. If they get a manuscript in that looks like it may not be a hit they don’t even give it the light of day. This is just another way for us to have access to multiple sources of information.

As we all know the next era will not be in creating information, it will be sorting and distributing it. In my opinion that is where jobs will emerge. With the emergence of Web 2.0 and consumer commenting and marketing we will see trends shift from what we as a mob enjoy rather than what is spoon fed to us because a statistical trend.

Thank you for the comment!

By: Veronique Dupuis

Veronique Dupuis — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:16:06 +0000

This, of course, seems like a dream come true… Can’t wait to see it it’ actually going to be popular at all.
Because I also hear that we’ll soon have these “e-paper” pages, on which you will be able to download your favorite newspaper, magazines, books… and carry it everywhere. http://www.engadget.com/tag/e-paper/. On only one sheet of e-paper, we will be able to store hundreds of books, take notes, receive info in real-time. They won’t be screens, mind you (too heavy), but actual supports for e-ink.
But both e-paper and Expresso machines (as for the fall of the music industry as we know it) let us ponder… How are going to react all these people who make their living out of the printing, delivering, selling etc of books, magazines and newspapers?

By: Jerad Kaliher

Jerad Kaliher — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:22:56 +0000

@Bo Fahs, that looks like a great concept. It’s nice to finally see the market shift to the side of the artist rather than the conglomerates.

By: Bo Fahs

Bo Fahs — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:21:57 +0000

Is this what lulu.com is doing? You can send them your file and they’ll make 1 or 20 books at a very low cost.

You could reference your book on your blog, they’ll send the book to the customer and send you a check.

This modern world! Sheesh!

By: Stephan Smith

Stephan Smith — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:29:24 +0000

Well if I’m selling an ebook,

I could send them a physical copy of the ebook as well and up the price.

Plus, I would have to have the physical books made until the sale.

So you would never have left over books because you are making the books as the sales come in.

GENIUS!

By: Jerad Kaliher

Jerad Kaliher — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 03:20:06 +0000

@Stephan, thank you for all your support. Mainly I think that the potential for a machine like this will be from bookstores. Potentially, with a healthy database, they could print any book from any marketing campaign on earth.

This would lean great power to the people who are earning royalties on the content. For Internet marketers that would be 100% in your pocket, minus marketing and printing costs of course!