Starting in March of 2012, Powells Books,a Portland Oregon literary icon, will begin printing on demand books using the Expresso Book Machine . The practice has been popular in the UK for a couple of years now and with hard economic times and a surge in digital format publishing the company has decided to cut costs, save space and allow their customers a larger selection of publications from all over the world. The books are stored in a giganic database that can be downloaded , printed and bound into a softcover book in less that 7 minutes.
