Pod Book Builder One
Down in Texas Harvey Ross has designed and built a high quality, entry level
BookBuilder
***Apple. “the (book) document company”
Hello Gary,
I thought I would pass this on to you in case you hadn’t seen it
yet. It seems that one of the announcements made by Apple at their
San Francisco Mac World conference this morning is a service through
which any Macintosh user can assemble their digital photographs
along with text to create a a book “printed on acid-free glossy
paper and bound in an elegant linen cover”.
<http://www.apple.com/iphoto/book.html> Supposedly books will be
delivered approximately one week after they’re ordered.
I have not yet heard any details about the technology being used,
but my first guess was that it may be some variation on the
PerfectBook technology recently developed by Jeff Marsh. Or is it
something completely different? Interns with hot glue and DeskJet
printers? All the other book-on-demand services I know of have
small minimum runs, but Apple allowing one-offs. So many questions.
Whatever the case, this is an exciting idea. Imagine the ability
of anyone with a Macintosh to produce a thin case-bound book of
high quality for $30! I can easily imagine this service turning
into a channel to quickly and affordably create one-of-a-kind
artists books. The wheels in the mind start to turn
-Seth
(the post-digital surge of the return of the print book is underway)