Espresso Publishing - Printing Books in a Digital World
“The Sydney Morning Herald recently reported on the unveiling of a POD (print on demand) machine in a Melbourne Angus and Robertson bookshop, with other stores to get the machines soon. The machine is called an Espresso Book Machine, and was dubbed by Time Magazine “an ATM for books”. Now many out-of-print books and out-of-stock books can be printed and bound on the spot in store.
All well and good, but what about the implications of POD for niche publishing? They’re significant and, I think, just as interesting as what it means for large publishing houses and bookstore chains.”
Punchup Press’ Jo Lennan guest blogs for CuriousWorks, a centre for innovation in arts, technology and education. Click on the headline above to go to the full article on the CuriousWorks website.
