Bill Bonner, founder of Agora and a book-writing machine, has a steel-trap mind with an ability to turn a phrase that is way beyond that of your humble analyst.
The machine is compact at 1.6m high, 0.9m deep and 2.1m wide, which would make it an ideal candidate for Post Offices which often have under-utilised space that could easily house a book-printing machine.
Digital Equipment and Data General (which inspired a bestselling book called The Soul of a New Machine) got rich selling them.
The Espresso Book Machine will turn a PDF file into a 300-page book in four minutes flat, at a cost of one penny per page including a full-color cover.
Ms. McNally said her book machine occasionally jams, much like a copy machine, but her staff has become adept at maintaining it, by vacuuming and cleaning it with alcohol, so disruptions have become infrequent.
It takes between six months and three years to book revenue for a new machine because of all the testing required by state-certified labs.
Then a couple of years ago Topkis read a newspaper story about someone who had invented a machine that could print a paperback book in 17 minutes.
This longer version first appears in William Mares' 1968 book Marine Machine, a non-fiction account of a platoon's basic training, according to Jonathan Lighter's Historical Dictionary of American Slang.
Because a new tablet hardwired with 20, 000 instantly streaming shows, on-demand television, music and movies, a massive e-book marketplace and a history of buyer confidence looks like a very formidable machine.
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The consumer division of Compaq, the world's leading computer maker, is also working on a desktop machine that folds up "like a book, " keyboard and all, when out of use, says Franklin Sze, senior product marketing manager for Compaq's greater China division.
By the time the machine finished downloading and installing, I had picked up a book.
Google Print also complemented efforts within the company to develop perfect machine language translation, which means that some day a scanned book will theoretically be readable in any language, anywhere in the world.
Could the next book you read or publish be written by an algorithm or by a machine?
The project has also unveiled reference designs for a second generation machine, which will take the form of an e-book with twin touch screens.
In 1984, Andrew along with Burt Alperson and myself, co-authored a book, The Fully Powered PC that reflected our enthusiasm for tinkering and improving the machine.
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