The launch of the final issue of SANDBOX magazine originally scheduled for tonight, Thursday February 2, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 7th. More information on the launch can be found here.
Come down to celebrate the immense accomplishments of the magazine that galvanized the creative community of Winnipeg and achieved such heights in such a short time, triumphing over adversity to the last!
We are currently contacting all those that have made reservations to tonight's event to inform them of the change.
Categories: Site News, Store News, Winnipeg, Event News
Enter in the Grant Park store to win a pair of tickets to see Straight No Chaser in concert Tuesday March 6th at the Burton Cummings Theatre.
Categories: Site News, Music, Store News, Winnipeg, Contests and Giveawaysis opening up a Community Classroom with the first classes commencing on February 1st. Offering small classes in a new, intimate, and aesthetically-pleasing classroom located within the walls of the Winnipeg Grant Park store, you will find captivating, content-rich courses, led by compelling educators that will help fulfill your yearning to learn. Register today as there is limited enrollment. Click here to get started.
Categories: Store News
"It's kind of neat to come and order a book and watch it being printed and have it in your hand almost immediately. It takes 3 - 5 minutes to print a book on the machine. I think it also says that people still want books." - Liz Treidler, bookseller at McNally Robinson.
CBC Manitoba Scene recently dropped by the store to check out our new Espresso Book Machine and watch it in action. They filmed a short segment with Liz as she walked them through the process of having a book printed.
You can read an article on the machine and watch a video of it in action online here.
An introductory post that goes into further detail about the machine itself can be found on our website here.
Categories: Store News, Winnipeg
McNally Robinson has acquired a machine that manufactures a quality paperback book every 4 minutes or so. The machine is part of the bookstore, standing in the front window, and customers can watch books being printed and bound.
The finished book is hard to distinguish from books printed by publishers except for the fact that the paper used for print-on-demand is better quality.
The print-on-demand machine (called the Espresso Book Machine by its manufacturer, On Demand Books, because you can custom order like a specialty coffee and in about the same time), immediately addresses three niche markets.
First, self published authors can now print, launch and distribute through McNally Robinson, avoiding the difficult decision to print many copies without knowing how many will sell.
Second, readers and researchers can buy physical copies of out-of-edition titles, of which there are millions available to McNally Robinson through print-on-demand databases like Google Books and Lightning Source.
Third, teachers and professors can customize textbooks and print only as many as they have students enrolled.
In future, print-on-demand will meet mainstream demand. Negotiations are in progress to make publisher catalogues available for print-on-demand in independent bookstores, which would help shore up the physical supply chain.
The store can now print a book faster than anyone can deliver it from a distant warehouse, with no shipping and handling fees.
Self publishers can email enquiries to bookmachine[AT]grant.mcnallyrobinson.ca.
For more information contact (453 0424 extension 242) or (955 1937)
Categories: Site News, Authors, Store News, Winnipeg
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