rj_anderson: (Books - Writing)
rj_anderson ([personal profile] rj_anderson) wrote2009-05-05 03:05 pm

Look on its works, ye writers, and despair...

Janet Ursel, a fellow fantasy author who was kind enough to accompany me to my first school visit in Ottawa last week, posted this on her blog and it is well worth watching -- if for no other reason than to find out how a book gets put together. But really, the idea of books-on-demand is simultaneously thrilling and harrowing, don't you think? Behold, the Espresso Book Machine:



And here's a couple of pictures of me talking to the crowd at that school visit -- 200 kids at Knoxdale Public School, on April 27th:

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When I looked at these photos my first thought was, "Wow, that's a lot of kids," and the second was, "Man, I have really terrible posture." Do they still have those charm schools where you learn to balance a book on your head?
ext_6531: (DW: Time War)

[identity profile] lizbee.livejournal.com 2009-05-05 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
My former employers have an Espresso Book Machine in their main store, but I've never gotten around to actually going in and looking at it. Given the number of out of print books I crave, I probably should...