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...been on an endless hunt for, say, a classic Elizabeth Bowen novel that hasn’t seen shelves since before 1923, then the Harvard Book Store might be just the place for you. Beginning this Friday, customers can use the store’s new “Espresso Book Machine” to select a book from millions of titles now in the public domain that will be printed and bound right on the spot, presumably akin to the way that a coffee machine instantly fills a cup of coffee. Needless to say, the new machine, which works...
...crowding the shelves of the Harvard Book Store, especially those titles published pre-1923, before which copyright protections are largely inapplicable. Now, the number of unavailable, out-of-print books has—at least for customers of the Harvard Book Store and the few other nationwide stores with Espresso Book Machines—significantly diminished, and many obscure books can be accessed without the labyrinth of used booksellers and the obligatory weeks of waiting and searching...
...Espresso Book Machine will be able to print a 300-page paperback book in four minutes, according to Gain, who added that printed books will be competitively priced and indistinguishable from those sitting on the shelves...
...Demand CEO Dane Neller said he hopes the Espresso Book Machine will revolutionize the book industry by eventually making any book available—regardless of its popularity. “We want to make sure that a book never goes out of print...
Daniel Eastman, general director of Schoenhof’s Foreign Books on Mt. Auburn Street, said he was intrigued by the potential benefits of the Espresso Book Machine—even though most of the books available were published before 1923. “Many of my customers are interested in classic literature,” he said, “They want to read Madame Bovary in French...