Harvard's New Book Machine

This week, Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts unveiled their new Espresso Book Machine. It’s about the size of a small car, and for eight bucks a pop, a customer can select from a list of millions of digital titles, and the machine will print and bind a paperback copy in just four minutes.

The Espresso Book Machine is an invention nearly three decades in the making. Daniel J. Kramer produced this story about the machine for NPR's On The Media.

We also speak to Jeffrey Mayersohn, owner of the somewhat legendary Harvard Book Store, the second independent bookstore in the country to own an Espresso Book Machine.

(Photo courtesy Harvard Book Store via Flickr/Creative Commons)