Publisher Vera Nazarian tells us that her Norilana Books has signed an “agreement with Lightning Source to make all our titles available through the exciting new Espresso Book Machine channel.” The print-on-demand, print-on-site book producing machines are designed to “print, bind, and deliver a print-on-demand book, in minutes, right at your local bookstore kiosk, while you wait.” A video of the machine in action is available on this page.
Nazarian notes that “over the next few months, all of our Norilana Books backlist titles will be converted and become available through this channel, and all of our recent (published in the last six months) and future titles are already available immediately, as they are released. In fact, our very first truly ‘instant’ book has already been printed and sold at an Espresso machine location by a customer in the field. And that first landmark title, printed in March 2010, was Mansfield Park and Mummies by Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian.
Espresso machines are already in place around the world, in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Egypt, and the UAE (see this page for a full list of locations).