标题: [转载] Machine that Prints Quality Books on Demand [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 10-1-2009 06:20 标题: [转载] Machine that Prints Quality Books on Demand 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
(1) Christine McConville, Nearly any book, in just 4 minutes. Boston Herald,
Sept. 30, 2009.
http://bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1201029
Note:
(a) Harvard Book Store is a bookstore of and within Harvard University.
(b) "The machine allows customers to print 3.6 million works from the On Demand book database and Google’s digital files."
Beth E Braiterman, Turning the Paige at Harvard Bookstore. Harvard Crimson, Sept. 29, 2009.
http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=529241
* The Harvard Crimson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harvard_Crimson
("The Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University" where crimson is school color)
(c) "Espresso Book Machine" is "renamed Paige M. Gutenborg in the [Harvard]
store's Name the Machine Contest." PW Daily, Oct. 1, 2009
http://www.publishersweekly.com/enewsletter/CA6699428/2286.html
("Picture of the Day" at the bottom of the main column)
(i) The English surname "Paige" is a variant spelling of another surname "
Page" (which in turn ultimately derived from Greek "pais" for "boy", "child
"). The successful contestant plays on words (English noun "page" (of a book
) came separately from Latin "pagina;" Gutenborg is modeled after the
printer.
(ii) Johannes Gutenberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg
("credited with being the first European to use movable type printing c.
1439 and the global inventor of the mechanical printing press")
(d) Bay Psalm Book (The newspaper misspelled it: There should be no "s" at
the end of "Psalm")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Psalm_Book
(i) Compare
Metrical psalter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrical_psalter
(ii) The noun "meter" in song is translated in Taiwan as 拍子.
(2) The above report mentions the machine maker
On Demand Books
http://www.ondemandbooks.com/
(Check out the machine at the button "ABOUT EBM" of teh horizontal bar,
where EBM stands for "Espresso Book Machine." There are few "commercial
model, Version 2.0" around the world.
* About the noun "espresso":
(i) "Italian (caffè) espresso, probably literally, coffee made on the spot
at the customer's request." www.m-w.com
(ii) Espresso
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espresso
(See the section with the heading "Etymology and usage of the term")
-------------------Separately
Jessie Ho and Perris Lee Choon Siong, Prime View Sweetens Terms For
Acquisition Of U.S. E Ink. Dow Jones Newswires, Sept. 30, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090930-702907.html
(PMI sweetens the pot as E Ink outlook brightens.)
* Also see
Robert Weisman, E Ink’s buyer sweetens the deal; Prime View adds stock to
offer after investor complaints. Boston Globe, Oct. 1, 2009
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/10/01/taiwanese_company_increases_its_offer_to_by_e_ink_corp/
Quote:
"[C]ompetition from rival platforms is mounting. Two technology giants,
Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp., are said to be working on computers that
would incorporate the book-reading capacity of the Kindle along with other
features.
"Bill Trippe, senior analyst at the Gilbane Group consulting firm in
Cambridge, said the Kindle still has significant advantages, including
electronic rights to hundreds of thousands of books.
My comment: E Ink is based in Cambridge, the reason why local newspapers pay more attention.