Bookstore as Printing Location?

Wow. Just read a post from Intangitopia about the Espresso Book Machine. This is basic a digital printing press that has 500,000 titles pre-loaded, most of which are apparently out of print.

You pay for the book and it is printed right there in the store. Interesting way to disrupt Amazon. Or should Amazon buy it? Or will Amazon become a re-seller of these books (I buy many more used books than I do new ones on Amazon through their marketplace).

Of course, Amazon has already made a play toward electronics with Kindle. This is just another example of how the knowledge economy is changing almost every intellectual capital market…