Google has teamed up with On Demand Books

	Since 1996, Google has been working  on creating the world’s most complete digital library.
	Over the past years the company has been developing new technologies and process the aim to help it reach their goals. But no every book has to live only online, that’s why Google has announced it’s partnership with Books on Demand, a company that allows readers turn those digital copies back into paper copies, individually printed by bookstores around the world.

Books on Demand is the company behind the now know as the  “Espresso Book Machine” (EBM), this fully automated small footprint press can print a 300 page gray-scale book with a color cover in about 4 minutes; with a cost to the bookstore of about $3 for materials. The machine prints the pages, binds them together perfectly, and then cuts the book to size and then dumps a book out, literally hot off the press, with a satisfying clunk. (The company says a machine can print about 60,000 books a year.). All the books that are currently On Demand Books catalog are public domain books in the country where it will be printed.

This brings good news for end users, because they can now get those rare hard to find pieces of literature that were only available online and used; at very expensive prices. Now they can have a freshly new printed copy in their “around the corner” book shop at a fraction of the cost.

The revenue schedule according to On Demand Books suggest that book stores price the books around $8, leaving them a $3 profit after both Google and On Demand Books collect a buck-a-book fee.