Wednesday, October 21, 2009

HP, Amazon team up on rare book revival - InternetNews.com

Print is dead? Don't tell that to HP. The printer giant is announcing two deals today that aim to revive out-of-print books and help users create custom magazines.

HP said its HP BookPrep will make more than 500,000 rare and hard-to-find books available for sale through new collaborations with e-commerce giant Amazon and the University of Michigan. BookPrep is a cloud computing service designed to facilitate the on-demand printing of books in any quantity, from one to 100, or even thousands...