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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Interesting article, but it's missing one key element - an Espresso Book Machine. Install one of those and in principle you can then have any book printed on-site.
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Makes me think of the bookstore mentioned in Robert Sawyer's Flash Forward...
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Instead, they met at the Chapters superstore in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby. This one still devoted about half its space to actual pre-printed books that were for sale: guaranteed bestsellers by Stephen King, John Grisham, and Coyote Rolf. But the rest of the facility was taken up by individual display copies of titles that could be printed on demand. It took only fifteen minutes to produce a single copy of any book, either in mass-market paperback or as an octavo hardcover. Large-print editions could be had, as well, and computer-translated editions in any one of twenty-four languages could be produced in only an additional few minutes. And, of course, no title was ever out of stock.
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