Anyone who’s ever tried to read a book in ebook format knows that it will never replace the traditional printed book. But print on demand, now that’s a much better use of digital technology… digitize a huge library and print copies when needed.
This article from ExtremeTech discusses this interesting concept…
SANTA CLARA, Calif.–It takes ten minutes to print one copy of Alice in Wonderland and only one dollar to buy it at the Bookmobile, a mobile digital library. r
The Bookmobile is a mobile van that is equipped with a printer, a book binding machine and a satellite dish. A demonstration of its searchable database of 20,000 online books that exist in the public domain and the production of select books was shown at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.