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Old 06-12-2014, 04:44 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by rhadin View Post
Have we reached the point in social intercourse that we cannot wait 10 minutes for a book to be printed?
The point was that if each book takes 10 minutes to print, queues would be hours long. How many books does a bookstore sell in a day? And what if you're buying 20 books? POD just sounds incredibly impractical for any sort of scaling. If you want instant access to everything, that's what e-reading is for.
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