espresso means books?

I just got my weekly American Libraries Association (ALA) email, which always has some interesting news, and was very interested to read this piece about a print on-demand machine called Espresso. The Espresso machine was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (which you've heard of if you listen to NPR) and was developed by On Demand Books LLC. Apparently the World Bank is the first entity to own an Espresso, which it's utilizing because of the varied demands for their publications. The lack of predictable demand has led to storage issues, where a large amount of already-published books sit in a warehouse, destined for the pulper. Of course, eco-friendliness is only one of the advantages of the machine. The machine is extremely versatile, able to publish in any language and can even print the book for right-to-left and back-to-front reading cultures. The potential to publish any book no longer under copyright restrictions allows unfettered access to a multitude of books--and it costs under a penny per page. This initiative has a correlation to the e-books movement, where the publishing industry is not hampered by traditional production methods--but it also trumps the movement, where the machine central to the product is not owned individually, rather collectively. As the e-book reader is limited to those individuals who can purchase it, so the e-book is limited as well. Hey, digital isn't everything.