| Have you ever been sitting at an airport waiting for | | | | it could also be something for other book stores to |
| your flight and wished that you had brought along a | | | | pick up and franchise. The Espresso Book Machine |
| book with you? Or maybe you finished up your | | | | can be found in certain airports, libraries and |
| reading material while you are on vacation and are | | | | universities, along with in select Blackwell stores. If a |
| looking to pick up a hard to find book that you have | | | | consumer finds one of these machines, they can |
| been wanting to read again for awhile. Regardless of | | | | easily search for the book that they want to read; |
| the reason, it would be nice to be able to purchase | | | | print it and bind it, all while standing there for only a |
| the book that you want, no matter where you are in | | | | few brief minutes. It also eliminates having to take |
| the world. That is exactly one of the thoughts behind | | | | heavy books with you on vacation if you know that |
| the Espresso Book Machine that was recently put | | | | there will be an Espresso Book Machine close by to |
| into play by Blackwell book stores and On Demand | | | | where your destination is. |
| Publishing. These two companies joined forces to | | | | If there is an interest too buy one of these machines |
| bring consumers a book machine where books can | | | | for a bookstore, library or other area that makes |
| be purchased, printed and bound, all at the same | | | | sense to place one, then be prepared to spend a |
| machine. | | | | little bit of money. To purchase an Espresso Book |
| It would be easy to assume that if your home | | | | Machine with a printer, it is going to cost close to |
| printer takes five minutes to print out a several page | | | | $100,000. For high traffic areas, such as large airports, |
| report in color, than there is no way that the | | | | bookstores and libraries, then this amount of money |
| Espresso Book Machine could actually print whole | | | | could be well worth it. For smaller mom and pop type |
| books in a reasonable amount of time. However, the | | | | bookstores however, the price tag might be a little |
| machine can print and bind books in around 5 minutes. | | | | out of reach. |
| The book printing machine has the capability to print | | | | It seems as though everything is becoming |
| out over 400,000 book titles that are hard to find or | | | | convenient and digitalized these days and the |
| out of print and over 100,000 titles that Blackwell | | | | Espresso Book Machine is just more proof of that |
| currently sells in their bookstores. | | | | market niche. |
| This invention can be a life saver for consumers and | | | | |