With the installation of a state-of-the-art book-printing machine at one of its libraries, the University of Michigan stands at the new frontier of 21st-century publishing, offering printed and bound reprints of out-of-copyright books from its digitized collection of nearly 2 million books, as well as thousands of books from the Open Content Alliance and other digital sources.

U-M is the first university library to install the book-printing machine. The Espresso Book Machine, from On Demand Books of New York, produces perfect-bound, high-quality paperback books on demand. A Time Magazine "Best Invention of 2007," the Espresso Book Machine has been called "the ATM of books." It was purchased with donations to U-M libraries. Read more at: http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/ story.php?id=6735

See also:

• An ATM of Books
• Espresso Print on Demand
• Espresso Book Machine
• Libraries and POD
• U. of Michigan Library Installs 'ATM of Books' (The Chronicle's Wired Campus)
• University of Michigan and Books on Demand
• Instant Books from the Library (Business Week)
• Markets Down, Library Cards Up (Washington Post)
• President Mary Sue Coleman's gateway page
• Print on Demand Goes Local
• The Espresso Machine Debuts (Publishers Weekly)
• On-Demand Printing Comes to the Library