I was listening to this episode of On The Media the other day; all about the future of books, publishing and the media. None of it's especially new stuff but it's all interesting. I was especially struck by the conversation about the Espresso book making machine and how it might re-orientate book selling back to the specialist book-seller/lover. Maybe. (I really like the invention story primarily being about glue. That's the great thing about invention; the problem you have to solve is never the one the outsider imagines it would be.)
And then I was at Borders on Oxford Street the other day and realised they're already practising for this world with their software on demand store. And it's a simple and good experience. It takes them about five minutes for them to knock you up your software, which isn't a pain because you're in a bookstore and you can have a pleasant browse around in the meantime.
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