As part of a deal announced Thursday, Google is opening up part of its index to the maker of a high-speed publishing machine that can manufacture a paperback-bound book of about 300 pages in under five minutes. The new service is an acknowledgment by the Internet search leader that not everyone wants their books served up on a computer or an electronic reader like those made by Amazon.com Inc. and Sony Inc.
Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks
The machines sell for $100K, so there will probably be one in every college bookstore by 2015. The breakdown was that the sample 300 pg book should retail for $8, with $1 each going to the retailer and $1 going to Google.
The Gutenberg press was revolutionary because it made it affordable to to print a million copies of any 1 document. The Gootenberg press Google instant press can print any public domain book, probably in less than 10 minutes.
For the record, this was already fully possible with a simple laser printer and access to Gutenberg.org.
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Gutenberg.org is great, with on-line copies of just about every book published before 1925 either available or in the pipeline. You can sign on to help with the proof reading (the time comsuming part of the paper2e-book process (JohnJ M)
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