Espresso Book Machine
The Espresso Book Machine (EBM ) is an integrated print-on -demand printer that within a few minutes a single book including the cover ( softcover ) printing using PDF files, assemble and can bind. Since 2010, the Xerox device is marketed and carries the model designation EBM 2.0.
Development
The impetus for the development of the printer came from Jason Epstein of Random House, the publisher of writers such as Norman Mailer, Philip Roth and Gore Vidal were his ideas for the further development of the publishing industry in 1999 by Jeff Marsh, a U.S. engineer and inventor picked up, and let it flow into his existing letterpress prototypes. The first Espresso Book Machine was introduced in 2007 in a public library in New York, where visitors a month could print some of the Open Content Alliance (OCA ) made available free book titles for free.
2003 Jason Epstein and Dane Neller founded the print service On Demand Books ( ODB). The feared revolution in the book industry and the fall of book price fixing is not occurred. Since September 2009, cooperate Google and On Demand Books. The copyright-free titles from the Google Book Search have since been for the pressure with the Espresso Book Machine available.
The PDF templates commercial book title provides the book wholesaler Ingram Book Group.
Technology
The heart of the Espresso Book Machine is a high speed printer that can produce a book with 300 pages in any format in less than five minutes. Parallel to the pressure of the pages of the book cover is established. The printed stack of papers ( " book block " ) is merged, provided with glue, pressed into the cover and glued it. Finally, the paper edges are subjected to a three -sided trimming.
As software EspressNet is used. This proprietary system provides access to a network of 3.3 million by the publishers for printing on the Espresso Machine shared book titles.
Adaptation
2008 ten printers in bookstores and libraries in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Egypt were available to make a daily average of around 100 titles, mainly textbooks were printed. In October 2011, the total number had risen to 85 devices, especially in Europe, the technology has so far not been successful.
A 2008 with Libri / Books on Demand Memorandum of Understanding signed for distribution in the German book trade has not yet been fulfilled, as the system catalogs of large publishers are missing next to the stock of self-publishing books and public domain titles.