Quick little video on the Espresso Book Machine which is the only one in the UK. Blackwell bought this machine and my book was first printed on it at the London Book Fair on April 21st 2009! For more information on the Espresso Book Machine visit this website www.ondemandbooks.com or read below. From their website The EBM is a fully integrated patented book making machine which can automatically print, bind and trim on demand at point of sale perfect bound library quality paperback books with 4-color cover indistinguishable from their factory made versions. The EBM Version 2.0 is modular in 2 parts and the core unit measures approximately 2.7 feet deep, 3.8 feet wide and 4.5 feet high. The EBM 2.0 is available with a high speed (105 page per minute) black and white printer, a high speed color printer or a 35 page per minute printer. The EBM will print, bind, and trim a 300-page book in less than four minutes with a high speed printer model. Production cost is a penny a page and minimal human intervention is required for operation. The trim size of a book is infinitely variable between 8.5 x 11 and 4.5 x 4.5 and the EBM Version 2.0 can bind up to 830 pages. Routine intervention is needed for such tasks as refilling paper trays and emptying the trim receptacle tray. Occasionally, a paper jam will occur but the frequency is on par with any high quality laser imaging machine, perhaps once or twice a day under heavy use. Once cleared, books will continue to print from the page …
ON DEMAND BOOKS and ESPRESSO BOOK MACHINE at Blackwell bookstore London
K-Zone Highlight: “A Conversation with Frank Romano”
Frank Romano, Professor Emeritus, RIT, provides insight on the future of the printing industry and trends leading up to drupa 2012. Includes discussion on realignment of the publishing market, print on demand books, inkjet technologies and the growing popularity of photobooks. Moderated by Kodak’s Chris Lyons. For the complete K-Zone video, please visit www.kodak.com
Self-Publishing: Print on Demand Comparisons pt1/2
This is part 1 of 2 of a comparison of major Print on Demand (POD) providers: Lightning Source Ingram, CreateSpace, and Lulu. In the video presentation, I discuss the basic pros and cons of each provider on features, quality, costs of getting started, and royalties and profits. www.latenitebooks.com - Late Nite Books Author Website www.myidentifiers.com - US ISBN Agency http - Lightning Source (LSI) www.createspace.com - CreateSpace (CS) http - Lulu Print on Demand
A Creative Year - my book arrives
I’ve made a book from my blog about creativity. You can buy the book here: www.lulu.com Thanks for watchin!
Self-Published Author R. Lynn Interviewed by BookRix’s Amber Sims Hinterplattner
Self-Published Author R. Lynn shares what she loves about BookRix, the online community connecting readers and writers, to BookRix Social Media Director Amber Sims Hinterplattner while at Book Expo America BEA 2011 in New York City, NY. Recently, Author R. Lynn turned down a traditional publishing opportunity to become a BookRix sponsored author as BookRix launches their author services this year including eBook distribution and print on demand POD. She talks about how BookRix can help writers and authors get to the next level and who a few of her self-publishing mentors are currently including Amanda Hocking and JA Konrath.
1Book - Books on demand in-house system.
1Book- In House Books On Demand Production System Desc- www.1book.com - Books On Demand 1Book™ model D is PSiks 2nd generation Book -on-Demand (BOD) system for In-House production. The 1Book™ system prints and binds paperback perfect-bound books in black & white content and full color cover. The books printed by the system have the same quality and “look & feel” of conventional books. www.1book.com
Three Knife Trimmer for print on demand - Wilstead Fastset 60/700
Wilstead Fastset 60/700 Three Knife Trimmer with optional Dryer/Feeder and barcode reader for print on demand book production.
Printing Demand Paging on Symbian on an Espresso Book Machine
Jo Stichbury, Head of Technical Communications at Symbian, talks to John Atkins, Chairman of Newsstand UK, as we watch Demand Paging on Symbian roll off an Espresso Book Machine. For more information: developer.symbian.org http www.ondemandbooks.com
Learn to Publish Your Book in a Los Angeles Mission College class
www.lamissionwriting.com for more information. Writers! Novelists! Poets! Artists! Learn to publish your book in a college course at Los Angeles Mission College, Sylmar, San Fernando Valley, 20 minutes from Los Angeles, California. The only class in Los Angeles teaching writers to publish their own books. This college course will introduce writers and designers to Adobe InDesign. This is a beginner class — no prior knowledge of desktop publishing required. If a writer designer knows PhotoShop, Illustrator, and other image processing programs, good. If not, Los Angeles Mission College offers many other multimedia courses. The cost is minimal. 0 enrolls a student in this one class. For other classes, add a unit. This is cheaper than coffee! Printing expenses at the college will be another . If a student operates a website, they can upload their book their website. At the end of the class, a student can upload their book to blurb.com or lulu.com. These print-on-demand services are cheaper than xerox!