HP BookPrep Creates Long Tail for Out-of-Print Books
Been sitting on this one for a while so I’m just finally going to dump it here and let you investigate further on your own. Me? I say it sounds and looks interesting.
A new service from HP’s IdeaLab is HP BookPrep, a print-on-demand service. With BookPrep, consumers can order any book, whether current or out-of-print, and have it prepared for them as a print-ready PDF eMaster file. What’s more, the HP technologies used in the imaging process can restore older, damaged copies of books back to their original form.
Michael Sauers is the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “HP BookPrep Creates Long Tail for Out-of-Print Books”
Wow — lots of possibilities. Worth keeping an eye on.
Wow — lots of possibilities. Worth keeping an eye on.