April 26, 2009
Cooking yer books
Ok, they’re calling it an espresso book machine because it prints up a whole entire book in minutes, but you know, it’s hot when it comes out. Yum. It launched on Friday at Blackwells on Charing Cross Road, and it is expected to revolutionise bookselling. The people who made the machine are hoping this means that ‘out of print’ will soon become a meaningless term. It is called The Espresso. The biggest revolution in publishing since Gutenberg, they say. It seems like a good idea.
“This could change bookselling fundamentally,” said Blackwell chief executive Andrew Hutchings. “It’s giving the chance for smaller locations, independent booksellers, to have the opportunity to truly compete with big stock-holding shops and Amazon … I like to think of it as the revitalisation of the local bookshop industry. If you could walk into a local bookshop and have access to one million titles, that’s pretty compelling.”
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Thanks, Lucy, for posting this. I love it, I love it. (And I’m pretty sure I was in that store in 2007.) Cool.
sounds cool, I just wonder about cost and quality. Speaking of cooking books: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0tCMY02awo
I want a store that has this to be out of stock of a book I want.
It says in the article that quality is very good, and it would have to be, to work. It is also hot! Cost also would have to be matched to the market. I would be surprised if they did not focus strongly on both these qualities. Hmm, book noodlesoup, eh? Why did they not use stock or herbs? Not even salt!