In Store Book Printing: Books on Demand

About Books On Demand

Read on for information about Books on Demand at Harvard Book Store. Find information on Custom Printing here.

Paige M. Gutenborg, Harvard Book Store's book-printing robot

With our books on demand service, our customers can print paperback books from electronic files available online, including previously inaccessible titles such as Lewis Carroll’s original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland, Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1886), An Historical Sketch of Groton, Massachusetts, 1655-1890 (1894), and The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing (1906), lectures that forever changed the British hat manufacturing industry.

We can print nearly five million titles, including Google Books that are in the public domain, as well as thousands of publisher-permission titles. Many out-of-print books and books that are no longer under copyright can be in your hands within minutes.

What does our book-printing robot have to do with Jurassic Park?

Watch our staff's suspenseful and informative short film, Jurassic Books!

Print books on demand with the Espresso Book Machine and Google Books. A video from Google.

Search Book Databases

Current Databases Include:

Harvard Book Store On Demand Books
A fairly comprehensive database of on demand titles
Google Books
Internet Archive
Project Gutenberg
Gallica

And databases are constantly growing!

To have a book printed, email the link, Google Book ID, or the black and white PDF to bookmachine@harvard.com.

How to Locate a Google Book ID:

Make sure we're printing the correct book for you by providing the exact Google ID number! Locate the Google ID for the public domain title you wish to print and email it to us to have a copy printed for you.

If you've found the title in Google Books, you can locate the Google ID number in the URL, as seen below; so the Google ID for Alice's Adventures Under Ground is H7oNAAAAYAAJ.