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