Planning Ahead For All The Readers On Your Gift List

摘要

The other day I was talking with a friend and colleague about the article "Print on Demand Goes Local" by Jill Grogg. It describes how the University of Michigan libraries are setting up a print-on-demand (POD) service using On Demand Books' new Espresso Book Machine. On Demand Books boasts that this is the first POD contraption that can operate at the retail level. What ATM machines are to the banking experience, the Espresso Book Machine is to the book-making and bookselling experience, according to On Demand Books. My "Isn't that great?" chatter comes to a halt. Silence ensues as I wait for some response.