Up Close and Personal with the Espresso

As I reported in this blog a while back, Bellingham, Washington's Village Books became the first bookstore on the West Coast to acquire an Espresso machine — not the caffeine-producing kind, however: the book-producing kind.

Many of you may already be familiar with the Espresso Book Machine, which allows bookstores to offer customers out-of-print books or self-published books on demand. While I've written about it before, last night I got the chance to see the Espresso — and its products —...