Comments on: The Out-Of-Print Curse http://stupidblogname.com/2008/12/the-out-of-print-curse/ YA lit and some other stuff Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:33:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Alistair Spalding http://stupidblogname.com/2008/12/the-out-of-print-curse/#comment-280 Alistair Spalding Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:24:36 +0000 http://stupidblogname.com/?p=268#comment-280 Hi Bookworm, we have a really similar site here in the UK called Book Mooch www.bookmooch.com it's very popular and quite a few people here at Egmont are signed up to it. As to why B&N or Borders don't sell Out of Print books I think the solution is to have a digital printing machine in those stores. Wired blog about the idea here: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/06/book-vending-ma.html That way any book that has been digitised is available, no matter if it's normally out of print or hard to find. It hasn't taken off yet, but surely it's only a matter of time. . . Hi Bookworm, we have a really similar site here in the UK called Book Mooch http://www.bookmooch.com it’s very popular and quite a few people here at Egmont are signed up to it.

As to why B&N or Borders don’t sell Out of Print books I think the solution is to have a digital printing machine in those stores. Wired blog about the idea here: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/06/book-vending-ma.html

That way any book that has been digitised is available, no matter if it’s normally out of print or hard to find. It hasn’t taken off yet, but surely it’s only a matter of time. . .

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