New Publishing Machine for the Masses

Gutenberg, step aside. The new tech-savy alternative has come for those of us who have no interest in reading a book on a screen:

It's called Espresso, weighs 800 pounds, and can print a paperback book in the time it takes to drink a cup of it's namesake. They cost $75,000 though, so I guess we just have to wait until the local Barnes and Noble gets one. Unless we start our own "Print your book" store first....

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2307

NPR says Publish This

NPR's All Things Considered takes a stab at another side of a writer's world. I thought this was interesting considering how everything in publishing is changing, even what it means just to call yourself a writer.

"For Authors, Ghostwriting Offers Solvency, Stability" by Lynn Neary

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111511780