Google plans to bring back paperback books
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I'm really not sure how I feel about Google printing books that are out of print though. On the one hand, I think it would be awesome to be able to get ahold of some of those rare, hard to find books that just sound awesome, but are ridiculously expensive. On the other hand, it seems a little wrong to not compensate the authors, who still own the copyright for the book.
The only other question I have is: price. I think there is at least some market for cheap, on demand printing of just about any book. If I can get (throwing numbers out there) any book printed for 100 page for $0.75 (or something equivalent), with reasonable shipping, I would definitely turn that way for a large portion of my reading (rather than buying used books for essentially the price of shipping).