Harvard Book Store to Print Google Books

Independently owned Harvard Book Store just announced that it will be getting an Espresso Book Machine, the newfangled device that allows you to print your own public domain books straight from Google Books. According to the bookstore, Espresso "can produce library-quality, perfect bound paperback editions from a virtually limitless inventory of digital titles in multiple languages, including rare and out-of-print public domain titles." According to Wired, we lucked out: there is only a handful of Espresso Book Machines in operation across the world. (The closest? Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont.) Harvard's Espresso will go live September 29, right across the street from Widener Library, which might just have to lower its privilege fee to compete.