The Espresso Book Machine

The biggest hurdle in the way of self published authors to success is that brick and mortar bookstores will not buy their books to display. Running a store is expensive. The store managers don’t want to take chances with unknown authors. If your book is not available through a brick and mortar bookstore, you lose 80% of the market share. According to Lulu’s owner, the largest self publishing company, the average number of books a title sells is 100. That is partly because Lulu’s cost per book is high, but also because brick and mortar bookstores don’t want to do much with self published books.

That is about to change. The EBM is a book making machine that can automatically print, bind and trim on demand at point of sale perfect bound library quality paperback books indistinguishable from their factory made versions. 

The EBM 2.0 measures approximately 2.7 feet deep, 3.8 feet wide and 4.5 feet high. It can print 105 pages per minute in black and white or 35 pages per minute in full color. 
The EBM will print, bind, and trim a 300-page book in less than four minutes with a high speed printer model. The trim size of a book is infinitely variable between 8.5” x 11” and 4.5” x 4.5” and the EBM Version 2.0 can bind up to 830 pages.

In the coming years EBMs will be installed everywhere, in bookstores, airports, malls, libraries, etc. Titles published through Felibri are listed in EBM's catalogue. Thanks to this innovative technology your book will be available everywhere. It's a great time to be a self publisher.  

Yep! We've come a long way baby! 

EBM Locations

The University of Alberta Bookstore
Espresso Books
9012 Hub Mall
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada

Internet Archive
116 Sheridan Avenue
The Presidio of San Francisco
San Francisco, California 
USA

Bibliotheca Alexandrina 
P.O. Box 138 
El Shatby, Alexandria
Egypt

New Orleans Public Library
219 Loyola Ave
New Orleans, Lousiana 
USA

Angus & Robertson Bookstore
360 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Australia

University of Michigan Library
Ann Arbor Campus
818 Hatcher South
Ann Arbor, Michigan
USA

Northshire Bookstore
4869 Main Street
Manchester Center, Vermont
USA

NewsStand UK 
88 to 84 London Business Park, Roding Road
London, UK

McMaster Innovation Press / Titles On Demand
McMaster University Bookstore
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada

McGill University Library (coming spring 2009)
McLennan Library Building, 3459 McTavish Street
Montreal, Quebec
Canada

University of Waterloo Bookstore (coming spring 2009)
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada

Blackwell Bookshop (coming spring 2009)
100 Charing Cross Road
London, UK

Brigham Young University Bookstore (coming spring 2009)
Wilkinson Student Center, University Hill
Provo, Utah
USA

The InfoShop, The World Bank (exhibition 2006)
701 18th St. N.W.
Washington, District of Columbia
USA

New York Public Library, SIBL (exhibition 2007)
188 Madison Avenue
New York, New York
USA