Google Books: Classic Books Available via the Espresso Book Machine

[PhotoJoe7]

wow This is a good idea

[VundaF]

The Expresso Book Machine really was a good idea.

[professordobe]

Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center Vermont has this Espresso Book Machine. Wish I had been able to stop long enough to get a book printed when I was there last week! They had a selection of what looked like very high quality books they had done from local authors using the machine.

[barejakamal]

Publisher will lose its earning as you start work in your office. Booksellers will lose business, you steal and print

[TheLotec]

@barejakamal This machine will cost you about $100.000. It is NOT something people will have at home. Bookstores will benefit from this, since they can cut down on inventory - and they do not have to return unsold books to the publishers that will send them to pulping.

It is not competitive on high volume selling books, but for rare books or books no longer in print it will be a good solution. It does not offer embossed covers or with gold/silver print and so on.

[TheLotec]

@barejakamal For books with copyright.. the copyright owners will get their cut automatically. For new authors it will give them the ability to make books without a contract with a publisher and they can order books depending on sale. No need to invest hard earned cash for 1000 books in the beginning. Schools and universities can use this machine to print one book that contains parts from several other books where they only need a few pages. No longer need for copies with bad quality.

[barejakamal]

Publisher will lose its earning as you start work in your office

[JediKnight1948]

fuck yea!!

[quixoticoaf81]

I love homemade coffee, but my machine lay dormant until coffeeloverstipsandtricks (.) com plugged me in!

[1theodoris]

this is the machine i m trying to find all possible info about! please help...

[1theodoris]

just great.

I would be grateful if anybody could help me with understanding what fast printing and binding machine you can see in the movie The ghost writer.

I need all possible information about it...

please help:)

[lukaszsw]

I was expecting an espresso but the book is ok

Hope espresso functionality will come later

[nascardude152]

I want one!!!!!

[rorrt]

This looks great!!!

in the UK the publishers Penguin made lots of money in the 70s and 80s with super cheap books, on super cheap paper and ink, and cover.

But for that 50 pence you got a good enough book, after all with the majority of books you only read them once over a week or so. and are really so cheap you could recycle them straight away.

[Dracanon]

wow, ingenius!!!!! Wow, this is so revolutionary, I love it!

[guitar1050]

Awesome

Only thing is that they should have shown a closeup of the book at the end

[Mijonova]

زحفيييييييييشن



[bbvvff]

How much does it cost?

[grassy64]

@bbvvff

 $97,000.00 plus.

[vonshavingcream]

i can see this being useful at libraries to gain access to out of print books, but other than that .. i don't see this as a game changer to the e-reader market.

oh yeah .. it prints an ink jet cover .. FAIL

[angelcar22]

It would be nice if the Google dude would look at the freaking camera, instead of looking like he's reading from a teleprompter

[dat7vid]

So...It's a huge ass printer than can glue paper together?EPIC!

[rogeragau]

This will work for about a day and then require a service call - I am very familiar with this type of equipment, and it requires constant maintenance. FAIL

[yakyakyak69]

ahem.... ebooks & ereaders.... hello?

[angelcar22]

@yakyakyak69

Ahem... some people like reading on paper... hello?

[WhiteArmy1918]

I can't wait for this machine to come out !

[grinninggnome]

WOW!!! That's cool! We need this here in Israel! A penny a page? Wow

[marierotar]

this is great ! would love to see this at the local library or bookstore.

[italk2youdotcom]

I wrote a book called Commando's Heart ...it is a Historical Romance. You can view details about it at my channel. Google is a great forward thinking company. I am grateful.

[sexydorkmo]

this could have a good use in emergency response situations like in haiti?

first aid books... etc

[kintakintyea]

Weel' aye thenk eits ee bee's nee's!!

[lightfusegetaway]

Hope they have local technicians to maintain these machines. Seems like it has an awful lot of moving parts, and the average shop owner is not going to enjoy playing mechanic with it. It's a cool idea, but I'll just keep waiting for the 9.7" ebook readers to get cheaper.

[VariedInterest]

It doesn't "decentralize" anything, it just makes a new product for google to sell. There are low volume presses around which are better than this, and as far as printing on a consumer scale, this is uselessly slow. I guess making another product which is a lame version of something already around is the same sort of "innovation" google offered with their new online book database, which is totally not a shit pile version of Project Gutenberg! Of course not! Thanks for the innovation google!

[GoodNewsBroadcast]

The real value here is in eliminating wastage in retail. Many books, are discarded into the land fill, after the covers are torn off, and sent back for credit. The rest of the unsold books, goes into landfills. This is industry malpractice, and anything that alleviates the bookstream into landfills is a good thing, in my view.

[brickgaragedesign]

Also, this is not just about public domain titles. When publishers realize that they can sell books for profit for zero investment, look out! Imagine being able to walk into a Starbucks and buy a copy of a book that's been out of print for a couple of decades for less than the original cover price.

[brickgaragedesign]

I did some conceptual work for OnDemandBooks a couple years ago when they were just beginning to work on the prototypes of the second generation of the machine. Google had nothing to do with the development of this technology and the machines that have been developed from that technology. All Google is doing is providing content. The machine was invented and developed by a (very cool) guy in Missouri.

[tallaussiebloke]

Comics/graphic novels could be done on these too! SWEET!

[ReaderViews]

Not really. They charge 6 times as much per page for color output. You could do a 100 page graphic novel but it would cost like $40 retail.

[schrillismus]

Google suxX!!!

[markm0nk]

Also, what they don't tell you is that you can get your OWN book published if it is in PDF format for about $5 overall cost.

[DeeJayBounce]

Which eliminates all existing forms of quality control. i.e. publishers. BAD.

[ursimon]

yeah, how much is that machine?

[ReaderViews]

On Demand as this was written had 16 machines installed at various stores, libraries and universities, and planned to make another 64 available in 2010. The machines are priced at $75,000-$100,000 each and have the capacity to generate around 60,000 300-page books a year.

[Bioprofessional1983]

that guy sounds gay

[mask8]

go eco. save trees

[javy150]

Google is the coolest company ever.

[jbbrochard]

This is great!!!!

[Blesss2000]

I was on the edge of me seat waiting to actually see the book after it was finished. All I saw come down the shoot was a notebook looking thing. Why didn't they show the finished product up close and personal?

[CalLadyQED]

Watch 1:50 to 1:54. They show the finished product. Doesn't look like a notebook. Looks like a normal, glossy-covered paperback.

[CrosleyAuthor]

The market for the overwhelming majority of Public Domain books is tiny.

[CalLadyQED]

That's why it's better to print them one at a time as each individual copy is demanded. Cost to print is higher per book, but you don't have the waste.

[pwntalive]

1. Small demand for

2. A huge number of public domain titles

3. Plus on demand printing

4. ???????????

5. Profit !!!1!

[elpresidio]

Very cool and awesome!

[freestyle57]

how much is this unit ? I am interested

[5THGENTXN]

I'm guessing 100K+

[NESMASTER14]

pretty cool

[jezzyby47]

That machine costs $75 000 if you were thinking of buying one.

[BryansU2B]

this is actually, pretty amazing.

[cattrain]

DO WANT.

[sexydorkmo]

also im kind of worried about how much paper would be cut off of 1000s of sheets of 8x11 paper

[Exelbaradin]

recycle the scraps

[sexydorkmo]

this would be great for africa

[kcplus11]

This is only a start in The age of the prosumer.

[WaterLdy]

What's a prosumer?

[kcplus11]

Prosumer is a new coinage that combined from the word producer and the word consumer. And it is very important keyword for our future.

If you want to learn more about that,it's better to read a Alvin Toffler's 「Revolutionary Wealth」.

[ananiasacts]

I'm guessing you'll be able to supply your own content, as well as choose from various real time programmatically generated digests of news, current prices, hotel reviews, local restaurants etc., and that such self-publishing might be a larger market for the gizmo than books. Google handled the book thing just brilliantly. You've really got to hand it to that company when it comes to being seriously shrewd.

[moroeljaguar]

awesome

[xHeARTtHroBx]

That is awesome. Google fuckin rocks

[bitchslapper12]

Don't affiliate fuck with Google, or they may turn you into a book.

[mrjoneboi]

I am overly sensitive to emotions so I find it a little unnerving that these two guys in this video seem redicuosly nerevous and don't even look at each other when talking. So awkward, I can't even figure out what this video is about because I am so distracted trying to imagine why they can't look eachother in the eyes. Do they secretly lust over each other? who know's.....

[flamemebitch]

why are they both nervous?

[Lavinco]

when is google going to stop finding new creative ways of putting companies out of business by capitalizing on their ideas? You are already the largest thief on the web by stealing more than excerpts and utilizing other people's content on your sites. i can read damn near a full book already without paying for it from google books. Google also steals videos, and other info.

[blah11blah]

lol stfu + gtfo. You are obviously butt hurt over google

[Lavinco]

another immature 14 year old's comment.

[blah11blah]

and

[frvfilms]

i think this should be marketed to older generations - that still read news papers :P

I will rather just view it on laptops, or phone

[illnacord]

That's the difference between new school and old school. The only thing that matters in this case is a market willing to pay for the product. Believe it or not, the touch of paper, much like the touch of vinyl for a DJ is the experience that is valued.

[MrGladiator00]

this is what I CaLL TecHnoLogY :)

[evi0blackeagle]

this invention is very old but i likew how it has paretnered with google books

now the question is will it cost more to buy the book that came from the machine or one from the publishor

[Omega231984]

The age of virtual information has just begun, yaaah!

[Jewishfan]

This is Google revolution! This kind of revolution we all like.

[Peogyllix]

And how much will this cost ? it looks pretty expensive :)

[MetaKnightMK]

You can tell the CEO was nervous. His eyes were watering and he had a nervous laugh every word or so.

[djmisplacedmarblesTV]

considering the enviroment we might wanna lay of the printing though brilliant idea to have em online

printing = bad

[DRUNKCANADIAN]

I want one lol

[beanieboy007]

While the example given is for public domain materials, the technology does not prohibit the use for non-public domain materials in the future.

For example: I write a small 50-75 pg short story, print off 25-100 copies with one of these machines to sell myself ... or make available to ALL of these machines for X.xx royalties.

Quite revolutionary in the scope of potential.

[9temps]

Nice,

c'est une technique de rêve.

Je cherche depuis quelques années un livre du XVIII, je pense que bientôt je vais pouvoir me l'offrir à un prix raisonnable.

[aarobc]

this is awesome on so many levels

[kid29a]

mhm... so they found a way to make money from free books... but decentralization of a book market sounds very optimistic. Technologically this is an awesome idea.

[paulvahur]

The texts are free, the book (pages and cover and clue and ink) still costs something

[kid29a]

@paulvahur:

Yes and I think this invention (printing machine) is awesome. It can give opportunity to read cheaper books. It's a step in decent direction. But let's face it - it will be just another way of making money for the people who can afford this machines now. And we should remember what happened with printing press, radio waves and now Internet (commercialization, restrictions and false scarcity).

[paulvahur]

I'm not sure I'm following you here. Somebody needs to make the books and I don't think anyone will do it for free (just like everything else in this life). Also, I think there was a lot more books after printing press than before. Sure there is lot of commercial stuff out there (as that is what most of people want) but certainly they printed more bibles and other meaningful works too. Profit motive is your friend, get one of the Adam Smith books through the Espresso Book Machine :-)

[kid29a]

@paulvahur:

Oh my only point was this - as I understand awesomeness of this things I don't want to treat it like some god given miracle of pure goodness because it's made for profit.

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[kid29a]

"Somebody needs to make the books and I don't think anyone will do it for free (just like everything else in this life)."

Well... content of these books is made for free.

[WaterLdy]

Actually, the content of those books wasn't made for free. Most of the "free" content in Google books was placed there by participating libraries whose paid staff spent a lot of time scanning/entering content.

You count the time volunteers have spent to enter/scan text of books in the public domain as a human labor "cost".

Additionally, the content of any book in the public domain was originally produced for money, public domain = copyright expired, not produced for free.

[kid29a]

@WaterLdy

yes you're right. I confused it with Creative Commons and stuff made purposely for free. I suppose it can be used to print that kind of books too.

[coijoi]

cool

[NightArck2]

This is Great !, people that find it hard to read off screen will find this extremely useful.

Great Job :)

[ViktorBluhme]

This is awesome! A book in only three an a half minute! And you could do that at home! If you had the huge machine.. Just sitting at your computer at Google Books, pressing print, waiting 3 minutes, and *pling* a book i in your hands! 5*

[TheHoboGamer]

google is kinda messing up youtube a little :P sorry to say