The revolution here is not the book cost, but rather what this does to the traditional publishing supply chain. Big publishers are like newspapers and huge sunk costs in printing and binding plants staffed by union workers.
Outfits like Amazon depend on selection to clobber bookstores and UPS depends on small package deliveries for a large part of their revenue. The real impact is that anybody with some desktop publishing software can become author and publisher of his own work. Imagine what that is going to do to the established publishing industry.
The book will probably sell for its list price set by the publisher regardless of print cost. After all, POD books any other way still cost whatever the bar code price or whatever discount the bookstore has set its database to charge. The good part is nobody has to pay shipping. How the heck will the store/library pay for the machine is what I want to know - they may charge MORE for the books than list price to do that.
“not when you’re buying college books. Though, really, most books are less than 400 pages. < $4.00 “-
56jmoney
College text books are typically more expensive because of the licensing fees and the amount of work put into them. POD would probably reduce costs, but not by much.
I’m more interested in the ramifications on the need for book stores . I see parallels to the movie rental industry and red box/netflix. Why go to a bookstore if they had one of these in a local super market?
I would definitely start going to the book store again if it had one of these instead of buying on sites like amazon. Plus think of how easy it would be to get those books that are constantly out of stock or on back order.
This machine is awesome!
What about you buy a digital copy of the book and print a hard copy for your personal use, and when that copy get lost or damaged, you can print another one for 5$. However I don’t think publishers will let you do that
You’re right, this is a huge step back from publishing companies who print thousands of copies at a time most of which never sell and are thrown away. Jesus Christ, think before you write next time.
In terms of environmental friendliness, POD machines are a huge step forward.
Dude…
What about e-readers. This thinks hogs on energy and consumes masses of paper for something that could be way more effective with e-paper.
I hope no library will spend their moneys on this crap.
fucking beautiful. i wish they had one of those around here.
That’s a lot of wasted paper that has to be recycled. Recycling is not very efficient.
The revolution here is not the book cost, but rather what this does to the traditional publishing supply chain. Big publishers are like newspapers and huge sunk costs in printing and binding plants staffed by union workers.
Outfits like Amazon depend on selection to clobber bookstores and UPS depends on small package deliveries for a large part of their revenue. The real impact is that anybody with some desktop publishing software can become author and publisher of his own work. Imagine what that is going to do to the established publishing industry.
The book will probably sell for its list price set by the publisher regardless of print cost. After all, POD books any other way still cost whatever the bar code price or whatever discount the bookstore has set its database to charge. The good part is nobody has to pay shipping. How the heck will the store/library pay for the machine is what I want to know - they may charge MORE for the books than list price to do that.
“not when you’re buying college books. Though, really, most books are less than 400 pages. < $4.00 “-
56jmoney
College text books are typically more expensive because of the licensing fees and the amount of work put into them. POD would probably reduce costs, but not by much.
I’m more interested in the ramifications on the need for book stores . I see parallels to the movie rental industry and red box/netflix. Why go to a bookstore if they had one of these in a local super market?
I would definitely start going to the book store again if it had one of these instead of buying on sites like amazon. Plus think of how easy it would be to get those books that are constantly out of stock or on back order.
Too slow.
Too slow.
The video (and everything I have read) says it costs 1 cent per page, average. That would be $3 per 300 page book.
It costs 12 euro + 2.5 cent for each page
Sooo… A book with 300 pages would be
12+300×0,025 = €19,50 =)
how else would you make a book. seems complicated as hell. i think it’s back to the libraries.
I think the concept is brilliant. However, I’m curious what the average per book cost is, including maintenance of the machine.
i jizzed my pants!
This machine is awesome!
What about you buy a digital copy of the book and print a hard copy for your personal use, and when that copy get lost or damaged, you can print another one for 5$. However I don’t think publishers will let you do that
You’re right, this is a huge step back from publishing companies who print thousands of copies at a time most of which never sell and are thrown away. Jesus Christ, think before you write next time.
In terms of environmental friendliness, POD machines are a huge step forward.
Dude…
What about e-readers. This thinks hogs on energy and consumes masses of paper for something that could be way more effective with e-paper.
I hope no library will spend their moneys on this crap.
Who can’t see the inherit value of this incredible machine. I hope every library has one of these some day.
i love this video !
not when you’re buying college books. Though, really, most books are less than 400 pages. < $4.00
FINE!
A penny per page! That’s expensive.
this is amazing ! i love this video !
the future