{"id":2112,"date":"2009-05-31T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2009-05-31T07:11:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T12:11:06","slug":"printing-moves-closer-to-the-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2112","title":{"rendered":"Printing Moves Closer to the Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been waiting for print-on-demand kiosks to break out, and it looks like it&#8217;s finally happening. The <strong>Ingram <\/strong>publishing services on-demand book printing unit has started delivering digital books for printing on compact Espresso digital printing machines at retail centers and libraries.<\/p>\n<p>The machines are being called the &#8220;ATM&#8221; of on-demand book printing. (I knew the traditional publishing industry thought they were printing money, but I never thought they&#8217;d come out and say it. You can see where their heads are at.) Others of us call the machines the still exciting &#8220;print-a-book-while-you-wait&#8221; device, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a title=\"Print while you wait.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicartsonline.com\/article\/CA6661438.html?industryid=47495\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> at Graphic Arts Online. As I&#8217;ve said before, this is what Amazon and other book resellers and publishers should have been worried about, not Kindle competition.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this story develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been waiting for print-on-demand kiosks to break out, and it looks like it&#8217;s finally happening. The Ingram publishing services on-demand book printing unit has started delivering digital books for printing on compact Espresso digital printing machines at retail centers and libraries. The machines are being called the &#8220;ATM&#8221; of on-demand book printing. (I knew &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2112\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}