Comments on: Printing Books on Demand

By: Elizabeth Thomsen

Elizabeth Thomsen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:53:09 +0000

I had a book printed there, too, and I’m pleased with the quality. I’ve been passing it around at NOBLE meetings so people can check it out. I liked watching the machine at work, especially when it gets cut to size, but what I really liked was the crowd that gathered around to watch the process. I was there on a busy Sunday afternoon, and people kept coming over out of curiosity, asking questions and some ended up getting something printed. I’m sure they get a lot more business with it because it’s out in a public area of the store.

On the publisher issue, many books in the database have a publisher: Bibliolife, Scholarly Publishing Office of the University of Michigan, Book Jungle and others. The Google Books just list Google as a supplier rather than publisher. A lot of the classics are there in many different editions at wildly varying prices, but I think the main difference is the covers.

It’s fun to see books go back and forth — paper books being digitized, digital copies being printed back into paper books.

By: Brian Herzog

Brian Herzog — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:34:20 +0000

Getting to play with new tech is my pleasure. Here’s also a news story with some good background on the machine, the company who makes it, and its catalog.

By: Erin Cassidy

Erin Cassidy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:38:15 +0000

Thanks for sharing the details of your experience with this. I’ve been curious but have not had the opportunity to use one of these machines; your description and photos illustrate a lot about the pros and cons of the current machine and process.

By: Jeff Scott

Jeff Scott — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:59:12 +0000

Yes thanks for sharing this. It’s great to see results first hand. It was a great idea to pick a big book to test it out.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:09:38 +0000

I’d been curious about the Book Espresso machine. Thanks for testing it out! It sounds kind of hit or miss right now.