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MOO (the nifty mini-card printing service) now offers Second Life cards. Send your Second Life postcards to secondlife@moo.com and they’ll reply with an access code. Enter the code on their web page, and you can make cards from the postcards you sent.
I’ve seen MOO cards around town, and the quality is fantastic. [...]

The Great Library of Amazonia by Gary Wolf (originally published in Wired 11.12) hails from 2003, but it is still a great and relevant read. It ties together Amazon’s then-nascent Search Inside the Book feature, the Internet Archive, the Internet Bookmobile, the Million Book Project, the Great Library of Alexandria, and the promise of [...]

According to this article in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Virginia Open Education Foundation is working to develop better textbooks for K-12 students by using print-on-demand technology to supplement (and possibly replace) traditional textbooks.
An open education forum for print-on-demand textbooks could allow schools to digitally access and instantly deploy materials held in creative commons — similar [...]

Jason Epstein’s $50,000 on-demand book printer was mentioned on CNN’s Fortune Small Business site. From the article:
“Buying a book could become as easy as buying a pack of gum. After several years in development, the Espresso - a $50,000 vending machine with a conceivably infinite library - is nearly consumer-ready and will debut in [...]