Extra! Extra! Read All About It! The Tattered Cover Press Is Born!!!

At last we can come out from between the covers and tell you that...

TATTERED COVER BOOK STORE INSTALLS AN ESPRESSO BOOK MACHINE®

Tattered Cover Book Store is excited to announce the installation of an Espresso Book Machine®(EBM) in their Historic LoDo location. This brings a revolutionary book-printing technology to one of the largest and most respected independent booksellers in the world.

The EBM is the only digital-to-print at retail solution on the market. The technology will allow the newly created Tattered Cover Press to become a community self-publishing center, offering services to self-published authors as well as families, non-profits, schools, business, and other community organizations. Through the SelfEspress software, writers can format, design, edit, and upload their physical book for printing and inclusion on the EBM catalog, as well as convert the print file to an .epub format suitable for e-readers.

The EBM will also provide a new sales channel for publishers and vastly increase the availability of titles available at Tattered Cover, reducing loss of sales due to books being out-of-stock. Within minutes, the EBM can produce a bookstore quality paperback with color cover, in any standard trim size, at point of sale. The content is fed to the machine via EspressNet, On Demand Books growing digital network of over seven million titles (including public domain, in copyright, and self-published). The EBM improves efficiency and sustainability by reducing shipping, returns, and the pulping of unwanted books.

We at the Tattered Cover are thrilled to be the first in Colorado to be able to provide this new service to our customers, said Joyce Meskis, owner of the store. It will enhance our inventory selection by providing quick access to millions of books that can be printed in the store. That means more options for the reader. This cutting-edge service will also be a boon to the self-published author and the creative memoirist. We will be offering to them the ability to do affordable short print runs of their books, whether for resale to the public or as a family keepsake.

Installation of the machine and staff training are being completed this week, and the new Tattered Cover Press will be up and running with a website and customer information before the holidays.

Here's a few pictures snapped the morning after its arrival (and not all together yet, but this blogger was too excited not to get these "new born" pics):

 Stay tuned for more about The Tattered Cover Press and what we can do with it!