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The article discusses the Espresso Book Machine, one of which is located at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. The books are printed on demand from digital files and the process generally takes less than 15 minutes though there are limitations related to the kind of digital file and copyright laws. The machine is made by On Demand Books and the device was invented by Jeff Marsh. Todd Anderson of the University of Alberta comments on the high number and kind of orders that he has received for people who want to print books that they have either written or that are in the public domain. The implications of U.S. and Canadian copyright laws and the long wait that can sometimes result when repairs need to be made to the machine are discussed.

The article discusses a strategy by the University Of Minnesota Press to capitalize on out-of-print books. The press has created the Minnesota Archive Editions program which will reprint all books ever published by the press through a partnership with the Internet companies Amazon.com and Google and the book company BookMobile. Out-of-print books will be digitized by Amazon and viewable through the Google Book Search tool offered by Google. Customers can use the Internet to order books, which will then be printed and delivered. Program director Douglas Armato discusses the availability of books through the program and difficulties in researching publishing contracts and the books' copyrights.

An interview is presented with Peter Brantley of the Digital Library Federation. When asked why he is concerned about Google Book Search, Brantley says that the quality of the book scans is sometimes poor and that Google may attempt to make money from the search engine. Brantley also talks about the effort that libraries must make to have Google scan their books. Brantley also discusses how he would like to see the lawsuit between Google and book authors and publishers end.

The article discusses how online retailer Amazon is planning to make thousands of digital copies of books available online through a deal with university libraries and a technology company. Amazon will be using print-on-demand technology, which will allows readers to be able to buy hard copies of out-of-print books and have them shipped to their homes, which is a service not offered by Google or Microsoft, who also sell digital copies of books. The article reports that Amazon is working with a company called Kirtas Technology, which sells book-digitizing equipment.

The article looks at how a U.S. federal appeals court has ruled against archivists who sought to ease copyright restrictions on old books and films in order to promote archiving them on the Internet, where they would be freely available. In the case, Kahle v. Gonzales, two groups--the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library, and Prelinger Associates, which preserves films--sued the U.S. Justice Department. The archivists said four copyright laws were thwarting the public from viewing out-of-print books, old films, and academic articles that have no commercial value. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, California, said the case too closely resembled an earlier lawsuit that had challenged the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.

Focuses on a federal lawsuit filed by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig in an attempt to allow old books and films to be placed in Internet archives where anyone can use them freely. Information on the two Internet archives that Lessig is supporting; Details of the Berne Convention Implementation Act and the Copyright Act of 1976; Impact of copyright laws on the "One Million Book Project" of the Internet Archive, Carnegie Mellon University, National Science Foundation and the governments of India and China.

Announces the availability of various books. Louisiana State University Press' revival of out-of-print books by Southern writers or by those who write about the South; American Zoetrope and Columbia Pictures' acquisition of film rights to the book `The Congressman Who Got Away With Murder,' by Nat Brandt; `The Logic of Health Care Reform: Why and How the President's Plan Will Work,' by Paul Starr.

The article reports on the developments in higher education in the U.S. The Bostonia, alumni magazine of Boston University had published a special edition magazine titled What's Your Risk? A Layman's Guide to Cardiovascular Disease. The Beloit College Women's Club had a patchwork quilt as a commemoration to the college's history. The University Press of Kentucky had created an advertising campaign to attract attention and customers to a sale of damage and out-of-print books.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article about the problem of out-of-print books by Charles R. Larson in the October 10, 1978 issue.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article about the problem of out-of-print books by Charles R. Larson in the October 10, 1978 issue.

The article reports on the problems and effects of "out-of-print" ethnic books that resulted to the unavailability of books in many bookstores and libraries. According to the author, delays in reprinting the needed books such as Camara Laye's "The Radiance of the King" affect students and all areas of humanities. The author interprets that these publishers did not reprint those books because they give up on cultural studies.