Wow! $8 for an Espresso (book that is)

Things are coming full circle with Google. First it scanned millions of books into its databases. Now it is making two million of the books that are no longer covered by copyright law available to a machine called "The Espresso Book Machine." The machine is capable of printing a 300-page paperback book in less than five minutes.

The machines themselves sell for $100,000 and there are lease options. Of the$8.00, $1.00 goes to On Demand Books (the manufacturer of the machine) and $1.00 goes to Google who promises to donate this to charities. The rest goes to the owner of the machine and to pay for variable costs (paper, electricity, etc).

Click here to read the article on Yahoo! Finance