Contact: Nazanine Atabaki (202) 458-1450 Natabaki@worldbank.org The World Bank is proud to announce the inauguration of the first Print On Demand (POD) device - the Espresso Book Machine (EBM). The new low cost and fully automatic book machine, developed by On Demand Books LLC (ODB) with initial funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will revolutionize book sales by printing and binding a single copy of a book at the point of demand. EBM can produce 15 - 20 library quality paperback books per hour, in any language, in quantities of one, without any human intervention. On a global scale, this would eliminate the costs of shipping and warehousing, returning and pulping unsold books, while allowing simultaneous global availability of new books. Print jobs can be initiated from the machine itself or from any locally connected computer using nothing more than a web browser. Young ambassadors from DC high schools and universities will be present to officially print the first book by a retail customer at the World Bank InfoShop, the first site to offer this service. Buying a book will eventually be like getting cash from an ATM. You choose a title, insert a credit card to pay for the book and walk away with the finished book a few minutes later. Washington-based journalists are invited to confirm their attendance at the briefing by sending an email to natabaki@worldbank.org EVENT: Inaugurating Print On Demand - the Espresso Book Machine SPEAKERS: Hans Dirk Koehler, Manager, Office of the Publisher, World Bank Ruth Kagia, Education Director, Human Development Network, World Bank Jason Epstein, Author and founder of Anchor Books, New York Review of Books, On Demand Books, and more. WHEN: Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. WHERE: World Bank InfoShop 701 19th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. CONTACT: Nazanine Atabaki (202) 458-1450 Natabaki@worldbank.org |
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