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BOOK MACHINE TO CURB PAPER WASTE?
The Espresso Book Machine prints paperback books in about three to five minutes. (Photo by Suzanne Chapman)
Books are changing. Just like the music industry, books are going digital. There are already those digital books you can read on a little handheld device. Now there’s a machine that will print the book you want from a digital file while you wait. Rebecca Williams reports the machine’s creators say it could transform the publishing industry by making it a lot less wasteful:
A related article on the EBM from Bloomberg
Producer: Rebecca Williams
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Running Time: 3:33