"What if instead of printing a specific amount of copies beforehand, books were printed on demand? You go to a Barnes and Noble, find the book you want and voila! Four minutes later it’s ready for you. This would also allow for the sale of back catalogs and out-of-print texts that publishers can’t afford to publish in large quantities.

And what about newspapers? It’s not hard to imagine that at some point a smaller home sized version of Google’s “expresso book machine” may be made available. What if, instead of subscribing to the print version of a paper, you were able to pay a smaller sum to print the parts you wanted for yourself?"