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InstaBook Corporation manufactures book on demand equipment. It was founded in 1997, and is located in Gainesville, Florida. [1] [2]
| A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject.(December 2009) |
InstaBook Corporation manufactures book on demand equipment. It was founded in 1997, and is located in Gainesville, Florida. [1] [2]
InstaBook Maker is a system specifically designed to download, print and bind a book in one step [3] on site for a retail customer. [4] The first model of the InstaBook Maker was presented at the BookExpo in LA[ clarification needed ] in 1999. [5] Patents for this technology were secured in the US and around the world by its inventor, Victor Celorio.(US PATENTS 6012890, [6] 6213703, [7] Chinese Patent 97705, Mexican Patent 241092, others [8] ).
InstaBook installed the first book on demand equipment in a bookstore in Canada in 2001. The first bookstore with an InstaBook in the US was the Bookends store in Ridgewood, New Jersey. [4] [9]
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