Category Archives: print on demand

The Barr Smith Press

November 13, 2009 – 9:32 am

nbsp;http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/news/
While the University has been publishing books under various imprints since the 1920s – mainly via the Barr Smith Library – a new press will publish works by the University’s academic community in two formats: an online `e-book’ for free download and a trade quality paperback edition printed to order.
The Barr Smith Press will now [...]

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Google Signs Print-on-Demand Deal for Two Million PublicDomain Titles

September 18, 2009 – 9:54 am

nbsp;http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA…
 
“Google and On Demand Books (ODB), the maker of the Espresso Book Machine® (EBM), have signed a deal to provide print-on-demand (PoD) access to more than two million public-domain titles (published before 1923) in the Google digital files.”
source: Bernie Sloan

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Cambridge University Press To Reissue Rare Books With POD

August 18, 2009 – 11:17 am

nbsp;http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/C…
The Cambridge Library Collection is a new collaboration between the Cambridge University Library and Cambridge University Press, the world’s oldest publisher. Already a pioneer in the republishing of titles from its own backlist, Cambridge University Press is extending its reach to include other books of enduring scholarly value that are still of interest to researchers, [...]

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McGill University Library becomes first Canadian content provider to participate in Digitize on Demand and Kirtasbooks.com

June 4, 2009 – 1:37 pm

nbsp;http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/announceme…
McGill University Library is pleased to announce a partnership with Kirtas Technologies and its Canadian partner Ristech, which will allow students, faculty and the general public to request to have books scanned and made available through the new Digitize on Demand program.
thanks to OAN

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Open Access and Print on Demand Model

June 1, 2009 – 12:06 pm

nbsp;http://www.frenchcreekpress.com/2009/05/…
The French Creek Press model for non-academic publishing is print on demand. We provide editing services to any author, we lay out the books, and then print each book as it is paid for. Yes, the per unit cost is higher than the per unit cost of offset printing. The benefit of print on demand [...]

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Blackwell’s unveils Espresso Book Machine – any title printed while you wait

April 27, 2009 – 2:48 pm

nbsp;http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr…
It’s not elegant: it looks like a large photocopier. But the Espresso Book Machine could herald the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented his printing press more than 500 years ago.
Unveiled today at Blackwell’s Charing Cross Road branch, in central London, the machine prints and binds books in five minutes.

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“Espresso Book Machine” at U of Michigan

September 19, 2008 – 10:31 am

According to a University of Michigan press release, the university library is the first academic library to install the Espresso Book Machine. The machine “produces perfect-bound, high-quality paperback books on demand” and has been called “the ATM of books.”
Press release:
 http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/…
Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates
Bloomington, IN

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