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 currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, 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.