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Espresso Book Machine
Print-on-demand machine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Espresso Book Machine (EBM) was a print on demand (POD) machine created by On Demand Books. It printed, collated, covered, and bound a single book in a few minutes.
![]() | Parts of this article (those related to closure of On Demand Books) need to be updated. (January 2024) |
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Introduced in 2007, EBM was small enough to fit in a retail bookstore or small library room, and as such was targeted at retail and library markets.[1] The machine took a PDF file for input and prints, then made the readers selection into a paperback book.[2][3]
The manufacture of the machine has been discontinued as of January 2024 due to the closure of On Demand Books.