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From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 01:46:49 +0000

Based on our experience with an EBM in the library at the U of Utah, I¹d
say there are three major things stopping it from enjoying more widespread
acceptance:

1. A high price (ours cost roughly $75,000 five years ago)

2. Unwillingness of publishers to make current, frontlist titles available
for printing on the EBM

3. Crappy metadata, which make books difficult to find via the EBM network.

A few years ago I wrote a brief report on our EBM experience for the
Scholarly Kitchen, and most of what I said then still applies:
http://wp.me/pcvbl-5tQ. (The comments at the end are instructive, in a
number of ways.)

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dean for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library, University of Utah
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On 12/2/14, 5:09 PM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 09:36:53 -0500
>
>Sandy Thatcher and Rick Anderson independently responded to my post
>about the shrinking of stock at B&N with mention of the Espresso
>Machine, on-site POD technology for swift gratification.  Discussed
>for a dozen years, the first (Wikipedia tells me) was operational in
>2007 and there's a list of 50 or so installed machines as of 2012, but
>in a world where new technologies take off like a rocket, this seems a
>bit stately and I confess I have not seen one or heard buzz.  Any
>well-informed observers on the list able to say how that project is
>going and perhaps even more interesting what are the impedances to its
>getting widespread adoption and cultural positioning?
>
>Thanks,
>Jim O'Donnell

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