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NORTHSHIRE BOOKSTORE LAUNCHES PRINT ON DEMAND PUBLISHING SERVICE

The Northshire Bookstore is proud to be the first independent bookstore in the United States—and one of only five locations in the world—to have an Espresso Book Machine (EBM) right on the premises. The EBM is a patented fully integrated book-making machine that can automatically produce a beautiful, high-quality trade-size paperback book in mere minutes (Click here to watch video - Requires Apple's Quicktime).

The EBM, supplied to us by On Demand Books of New York City, will allow the Northshire Bookstore to join—if not lead—the burgeoning “print on demand” movement in publishing. We’ll be able to publish our own premium paperback Northshire Press editions of great classic works that are out of copyright (“in the public domain”), including rare and out-of-print titles and books of local and regional interest.

And thanks to online archives offering free, unfettered access to hundreds of thousands of public-domain titles from all over the world—from the obscure, to the famous, to the infamous—we’ll be able to produce high-quality Northshire Press Facsimile Editions, to literally “print on demand” to fulfill customer orders.

In addition to printing new editions of classic books, we will also serve self-publishing authors of fiction, poetry, cookbooks, family genealogies, local histories, corporate reports, custom course textbooks—you name it. Shires Press will offer a complete publishing package, as well as an extensive menu of optional quality upgrades and à la carte services, such as expanded paper and cover choices; professional editing, cover and/or text design, and technical support; as well as consultation on marketing and distribution. Shires Press can publish a beautiful paperback edition of your book that looks and feels like the real thing—because it is.

The Northshire Bookstore joins only four other locations in the world that currently or will soon have an Espresso Book Machine: Open Content Alliance (San Francisco, California); the University of Alberta campus bookstore (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada); Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Library of Alexandria; Alexandria, Egypt); and the New Orleans Public Library (New Orleans, Louisiana).

For more information on print on demand at the Northshire Bookstore, please contact Lucy Gardner Carson, Print On Demand Coordinator, at (802) 362-3565, x117, or lcarson@northshire.com.