From: George Porter <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 02:39:56 +0000

Primary problem, to my mind, is the combination of high initial capital
cost with a very limited selection of content.  The first factor scares
off potential printing sites while the latter severely limits the market
for purchasing products from the device.  When I saw one locally, the
content was primarily self-published ebooks at Amazon and out-of-copyright
material.  In other words, if one was interested in a hard copy of
anything written by a recognizable author in the last almost 80 years, the
Espresso Machine was not a viable option.

George S. Porter
Interim Head, Research and Information Services
Sherman Fairchild Library
Caltech, 1-43
Pasadena, CA 91125-4300


On 12/2/14 4:09 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