The Guardian reports that the UK’s Blackwell is going to be playing around with print-on-demand and they are using On Demands Espresso Book Machine. Blackwell’s will be the first high-street bookseller in the UK to offer print-on-demand books while their customers wait. They even coin a new acronym (at least new to me) the EBM. It all sounds so 21st century.
Read the rest of the article: Blackwell’s to launch ‘clicks and bricks’ book retailing.
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