The London Book Fair 2009, presented the Espresso Book Machine, a book vending machine. But we can not see in meters, in which there is an offer of ten books, in these you can choose from a range of more than 500,000 books and apparatus at the time you print it. It takes an average of between 5 and 10 minutes. A speed of 100 pages per minute and another for the binding.
The machine costs a whopping EUR 130000. There were already some models installed in museums in the U.S., Canada and the very library of Alexandria. Its creator is a state editor Unidense Eptein named Jason, owner of the company's On Demand Book "the distributor of the machine. Blackwell bookstore chain in England has bought the first machine EBM in Europe and may soon all have a large surface. So far has only books that have prescribed the rights of the author, the prices are about the same as that of the books in any bookstore. Quality as those who have tested the machine say it is good, the paper is glossy white and somewhat sticky but the style sheet with pictures. It is estimated that by the end of the year, double the number of available titles and print speed. The model presented at the fair was 1.5 and is expected to end this year 2.0.
other hand part of the magic of this invention are the possibilities of printing the print books, old printed books or their own works of writers. We could say that is quite a reinvention of the printing press Gutenber recreating a revolution within the world of culture. Equally we can print just one of many of Leonardo Da Vinci as a novel written by ourselves and so see it finished as a book either.
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