Books Jan 18, 2012 at 11:43 am

Print on Demand Coming to Powell's

Alison Hallett
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ftw.
Leaky 2.0 oz The Avatar Slayer on January 18, 2012 at 11:48 AM Report this
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If this isn't an argument for buying an e-reader, I'm not sure what is.
cat & beard on January 18, 2012 at 11:57 AM Report this
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This video is boring as shit, by the way.

So they really think people are going to buy 10,000 books printed on demand at the store? Or are they printing these at their warehouse and selling them online?

How about the people who said checking Amazon for better prices was STEALING from local businesses: are you going to go down to Powell's and print a book you could buy online and ship tomorrow?
eldepeche on January 18, 2012 at 12:40 PM Report this
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well, imagine all those hard to find pdf books that aren't available in physical form.
Leaky 2.0 oz The Avatar Slayer on January 18, 2012 at 12:44 PM Report this
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Or carry hundreds of books around with you all the time on an e-reader...
Fruit Cup on January 18, 2012 at 12:47 PM Report this
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No one's asking the really important question: just how good are the books the machine writes?


Commenty Colin on January 18, 2012 at 12:49 PM Report this
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Fruit Cup, you mean tens of thousands? With 128G SD card (~$160)make that hundreds of thousands.
on January 18, 2012 at 1:04 PM Report this
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Colin: The machine doesn't write the books; they come from EspressNet, a digital library of 7 million titles of public domain, in copyright, and self-published books in all languages (English, Arabic, Tibetan, Chinese, French, etc.).
Most of those who have written a book or a blog want it in a physical form. Publishers only publish 10% of all works they receive. The remaining 90% that publishers have rejected are self-published.
on January 18, 2012 at 2:52 PM Report this
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@8 IT CAN EVEN WRITE IN ALL LANGUAGES?

Also, I don't pretend to know all the ins and outs of the publishing industry, but publishing only 10% of all works submitted sounds like a bad strategy - it's blowing my mind to realize that EVERY BOOK I'VE READ IS ACTUALLY 10 TIMES LONGER THAN I THOUGHT.
Commenty Colin on January 18, 2012 at 3:39 PM Report this
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@8 Where do you get those figures? Publishers on average don't publish anywhere near 10% of the submissions they receive! Plus, your percentages suggest that all submitted manuscripts end up as either traditionally published or self-published books.
geyser on January 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM Report this

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