Espresso Book Machine

Online Stock Trading - The Espresso Book Machine On Demand Books and the Amazon Kindle DX

The Amazon Kindle Ebook Reader has been a good little earner for Amazon and will no doubt continue to be such into the future as more and more people buy them and buy the ebooks that they need, at $10 a time. The Kindle has also yet to be rolled out inEurope as far as I know, so a lot of scope for increased sales - and I expect at some point there will be a Chinese version. Amazon has also just announced the launch of the latest version the Kindle DX, which has a larger screen - 9.7 inches instead of 6 inches - for a video presentation see Kindle DX Amazon has also secured a good deal with a couple of newspapers - the New York Times and the Washington Post which will subsidize the cost of the Kindle DX - $489 - if you take out a subscription to the newspaper.

If this sounds like good news for Amazon it is worth bearing in mind one problem that has become apparent with the Kindle, namely if you send too much stuff back to Amazon because you are not happy with it (stuff totally unrelated to the Kindle) then Amazon can turn your Kindle off and you are stuck with a $359 machine that it is totally useless - see Kindle Ebook Reader problem.

There is another problem that Amazon may have to contend with and that is the roll-out of Espresso Book Machines - if you haven't heard of them an Espresso Book Machine is a machine that allows you to print out a library quality book in 5 minutes, thus increasing your options when it comes to buying your books. They are already installed in a number of libraries in the US and elsewhere - Canada, Australia, Egypt - and the first one has just been installed at Blackwell's book shop in London. The beauty of these machines is that you can print out books which you can't find in bookshops anymore, due to the fact that they are out of print or are very hard to find. The text of the books and the covers are stored electronically.

The finished article looks just like the real thing - a high-quality paperback book. You can also print out any books you may have on CD or flash drives - even your own unpublished masterpieces.

The company that makes the Espresso Book Machine is On Demand Books (ODB) - they cost around $100K I believe, if you were thinking of setting up your own publishing empire.
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