How interesting that a “thing” is heralded as the most revolutionary development in books for half a century. What about the Google Book Project, Amazon, ebooks? A machine in a London bookstore has over 500,000 titles that it will print on demand, in about 5 minutes and reports suggest the quality is good.
Personally, I think these are a fantastic innovation and I fully expect them to be a more common sight. I still believe readers of books want to touch and feel paper and lots will never want to either buy more electronic kit or settle down with a tablet device. If the quality is good, it only takes a few minutes and the price is the same, they will buy it from a machine.
Maybe it is part of the marketing hype but in an era when we have witnessed one electronic-based revolution after another, people find it easier to relate to things.
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