Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver, Colo., has installed an Espresso Book Machine at its Historic LoDo location and created Tattered Cover Press, which the bookseller hopes will become "a community self-publishing center."
"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 owner Joyce Meskis. "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."
In an interview with Chris Devlin's blog, Matt Miller, Tattered Cover's general manager, said the store is "hoping to use the machine to provide better customer service, to work with individuals in the community to promote the value of books as resources and keepsakes, and to work with self-published authors to help provide a valuable resource in their efforts to publish their works. It is also an opportunity to work with publishers to sell their books if we are out-of-stock of a particular title. HarperCollins will be making thousands of their backlist titles available to print on the Espresso Book Machine."
