"For Budding Authors, a Rapid-Fire Publisher." Eric A. Taub. NYTimes, 10 June 2004.
I guess it was while I was in library school I heard someone propose the future in which bookstores would have a machine that would print and bind a book in minutes. When a customer wanted a book, a digital copy of the work would be obtained, printed, and bound while the customer waited.
Thursday, June 10, 2004
The Future Arrives
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Never thought of it like that. Little more limited than the replicator too, since it only does books, but maybe it's a start.
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