{"id":253946,"date":"2007-08-07T17:01:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/07\/another-interesting-article-on-the-espresso-book-machine\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:54","slug":"another-interesting-article-on-the-espresso-book-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/07\/another-interesting-article-on-the-espresso-book-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Interesting Article on the Espresso Book Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If:Book has a nice piece on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofthebook.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/the_future_of_print.html\">future of print<\/a> and the Espresso Book Machine. <\/p>\n<p>Very well thought out article, with a cautionary paragraph at the end:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>More importantly, what does it mean? While there&#8217;s certainly work that needs to be done on these machines, they certainly seem viable. Epstein proposed these machines as a solution for a single problem: the unavailable backlist. It&#8217;s not hard to imagine, however, that a decade from now the entire bookstore will have been replaced by one of these machines at the FedExKinkosBarnes&#038;Noble. Holding my copy of Faulkner in my hands, the overwhelming feeling was one of cheapness: the book had been reduced, finally, to being a disposable consumer object, available as easily as a latte at Starbuck&#8217;s. The books that the Espresso was putting out every twenty minutes existed for demonstration purposes: although passersby oohed and ahed at the possibility of the machine and happily took the sample books, I sensed that the books probably wouldn&#8217;t be read. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If:Book has a nice piece on the future of print and the Espresso Book Machine. Very well thought out article, with a cautionary paragraph at the end: More importantly, what does it mean? While there&#8217;s certainly work that needs to be done on these machines, they certainly seem viable. Epstein proposed these machines as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,3476,586],"class_list":["post-253946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-espresso-book-machine","tag-future-of-the-book"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363696,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253946\/revisions\/363696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}