The Espresso Book Machine is a kiosk-style printing press that stood to revolutionize both book printing and book selling, at least at the beginning. These stand-alone machines were envisioned to ...

In downtown Portland one recent Tuesday before lunch, I watched five and a half centuries of book-printing ingenuity compressed into a seven-minute process. A small crowd had gathered on the landing ...

Retailing for $185,000, the Espresso Book Machine, developed by On Demand Books, costs more than the annual revenue of some independent bookstores. But with a new partnership with the American ...

The Espresso book machine prints and binds books "in library quality, with minimal human intervention." It is the kind of thing I would like to have... only it costs upwards of 80k$. Even though it ...

Self-publishing is nothing new, and thanks to online publishers like Amazon’s CreateSpace, it’s also never been easier. If you can put words on paper, you can publish a book. (The erotic stylings of E ...

The Espresso Book Machine, as seen on the 2nd Floor of the MSU Library's maker area. There is a café located on the first floor of the Michigan State University Library, it serves the usual goods ...