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It's like an ATM for books...
...except you're less likely to be robbed.
I imagine by now you've all heard about the Espresso Book Machine? It's the wonderful, magical machine that prints books to order, one at a time, for about $10, in about five minutes.
Pretty fucking incredible, right?
Right now it's mostly books that have expired copyrights and are no longer in print. So it's gonna be a gold mine in that way. But my publisher just signed an agreement with the EBM people (also, coincidentally, our printers) and ALL Stonegarden books will soon be available via Espresso Book Machine. They're going to have them in tons of schools, libraries, airports, bus/train stations, all over the place.
As if that weren't great enough, there's a machine right here in Ann Arbor. University of Michigan library, to be precise. So in a month or so I'll be able to toddle over there and see what my books will look like from the machine. It also opens up a whole new world of visibility and marketing opportunities for me. People can get my book in a timely way and without having to pay shipping or using a credit card online. Yay!
So...I'm pretty stoked.
I imagine by now you've all heard about the Espresso Book Machine? It's the wonderful, magical machine that prints books to order, one at a time, for about $10, in about five minutes.
Pretty fucking incredible, right?
Right now it's mostly books that have expired copyrights and are no longer in print. So it's gonna be a gold mine in that way. But my publisher just signed an agreement with the EBM people (also, coincidentally, our printers) and ALL Stonegarden books will soon be available via Espresso Book Machine. They're going to have them in tons of schools, libraries, airports, bus/train stations, all over the place.
As if that weren't great enough, there's a machine right here in Ann Arbor. University of Michigan library, to be precise. So in a month or so I'll be able to toddle over there and see what my books will look like from the machine. It also opens up a whole new world of visibility and marketing opportunities for me. People can get my book in a timely way and without having to pay shipping or using a credit card online. Yay!
So...I'm pretty stoked.