Watch a book being printed on demand here.

It can print, cut, and bind 15-20 books per hour (completely different titles, on one machine).

"On Demand Books LLC. is planning to become the first company to globally deploy a low cost, totally automatic book machine, which can produce 15 - 20 library quality paperback books per hour, in any language ( Read more... )

We found out today that the bookstore that I work at was mentioned last weekend in the Washington Post in a Travel article about the city we're in. This would certainly explain all of the out of state calls we've gotten asking about our store ( Read more... )

Just read an o/p book listing with this featured "description":

"NO SMELLS."

Good to know.

I used to work in a used book store. What precisely that entails I don't have time to get into at this point, but I will detail this: I do buy used, and occasionally rare, or antiquarian books for the store. As a buyer of used books, here is a short list of things I wish the idiots that try to sell me their crap knew. If you are considering selling ( Read more... )

Hey, I have got a question.
( Why are people so freaking dense? )

Me: "Well, it looks like this particular version of this book is out-of-print. We could order it for you, but it might take awhile as we have to contact the publisher to make a copy ( Read more... )