Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/InstaBook

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The result was keep‎. Just Step Sideways ^{from this world ..... today} 23:02, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

InstaBook

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Tagged as COI for 15 years. Wikipedia is not a permanent webhost for COI content. BD2412 T 22:46, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. BD2412 T 22:46, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Companies and Florida. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 06:12, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
1. Alexander, George A. (2002). "The InstaBook Maker: Book Printing Eases Into Bookstore". The Seybold Report. 2 (6): 8–14. ISSN 1533-9211. EBSCOhost 6904802.
  The article notes: "In December 2001, however, an InstaBook Maker was installed in a bookstore in Canada. That is the event that triggered this story. And an important theme of the story will be a discussion of the design and economics of this machine as an in-store device. ... InstaBook Corporation was founded in 1995 by Victor Celorio. ... InstaBook Corporation remains a very small company. The home office in Gainesville is in Celorio's home, and there is only one other employee at that location. InstaBook employs five programmers in the U.S. and it has seven people involved in assembling the InstaBook machines in Mexico. ... The InstaBook Maker II, which is the current InstaBook model, is a machine for making paperback books in a 5.5x8.5-inch format. (The same principles could be used to construct a machine that would handle formats up to 8.5x11 inches, and InstaBook is prepared to make one, but has not taken an order for one yet.)"
  The article notes: "Although Instabook is still being refined, we conclude, based on our conversations with users, that the InstaBook provides an efficient, relatively reliable tool for making books. The caveat: the user must be willing to compensate for the idiosyncrasies of the machine. The biggest issues mentioned by users were making sure the right amount of glue gets onto the spine and adjusting the paper guides properly. We think that both of these issues can be dealt with by smart, experienced users, though they might prove troublesome in the beginning. ... But if we owned a bookstore, and we wanted several different people to run the machine on an occasional basis, we would probably wait to buy one until we were sure InstaBook had gotten all the bugs ironed out. It is a machine that seems to need, for now, a fairly sophisticated operator who is willing to take the time to learn how to make it run well. From what we have seen of the InstaBook Maker, and from talking to users, we think it is not yet the machine that will turn the vision of printing books in every bookstore into reality. But it is getting close."
2. Mutter, John; Zeitchik, Steven (2004-05-17). "U.S. Debut for In-Store, On-Demand Machines". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 251, no. 20. p. 10. EBSCOhost 13130457. Archived from the original on 2024-12-02. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
  The article notes: "InstaBook, a company that aims to turn bookstores across the U.S. into on-demand publishers, launched its plan by placing a machine in a New Jersey bookstore last month. The move is an attempt to challenge the chains on two of their biggest assets: their ability to carry a wide range of books and their publishing programs. ... InstaBook has some 10,000 titles available for printing, many of which are public-domain classics. Some see InstaBook as a means to turn a bookseller into a bookseller-publisher—à la Barnes & Noble, but with POD immediacy. ... Bookends's InstaBook machine is located in the store's renovated basement space, which is used for author appearances and meetings. Approximately the size of a large photocopier, the machine is tucked into a corner."
3. Hoffman, Allan (2004-06-27). "Production goes on site, on demand. Possibilities don't end with music, publishing". The Flint Journal. Newhouse News Service. Archived from the original on 2024-12-02. Retrieved 2024-12-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  The article notes: "Put aside this futuristic vision for a moment and consider Celorio's contribution to "production-on- demand"—a book-printing system known as the InstaBook Digital Bookstore and Self-Publishing Center. The system recently made its U.S. debut at Bookends, a bookstore in Ridgewood, N.J. An author with a manuscript on a CD or floppy disk can have 10 paperback books printed at the store for $150. The price is considerably less than those of Internet-based print-on-demand companies, such as iUniverse.com and Xlibris.com. ... The machine, roughly the size of a desk, is tucked into a spot in the bookstore's lower level. In the month since the InstaBook system was made available, the store has printed about 500 books, typically in orders of 20 to 30 copies, said Walter Boyer, co-owner of the store."
4. Gardner, Jan (2006-11-15). "InstaBooks: Wave of the future?". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 2024-12-02. Retrieved 2024-12-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  The article notes: "In eight minutes, InstaBook—a machine the size of a dining room table—printed a paperback book from a digital file, trimmed it, bound it, and put a cover on it. What I witnessed recently in Troy, N.Y., was simple yet extraordinary. It harkened back in time to neighborhood print shops while demonstrating the print-on-demand alternative to the publising houses of today. Eric Wilska and Susan Novotny, booksellers in Great Barrington, Mass., and Troy, N.Y., respectively, bought the InstaBook machine and launched Troy Book Makers this year in order to print self-published works as well as books, such as local histories, whose copyright has expired."
5. "InstaBook: Book published in six minutes". The Leader Post. The Canadian Press. 2003-12-13. Archived from the original on 2024-12-02. Retrieved 2024-12-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  The article notes: "Looking for a new challenge, the 30-year-old entrepreneur did a bit of research into solving the riddle of producing books on demand. What he eventually came across is a machine called Instabook, which he's now got running in Hamilton, Oakville and Cambridge, Ont. He plans to have one in Toronto next year. Prospective authors provide an InstaBook operator with a disk containing their manuscript; then the disk is fed into a machine and a fully bound and printed book pops out six minutes later. For $150 the writer gets one printed proof and 10 copies of the book."
6. Tauchert, Tom (2004-04-30). "Innovative InstaBook can turn anyone into an InstaAuthor". The Ridgewood News. Archived from the original on 2024-12-02. Retrieved 2024-12-02 – via Newspapers.com.
  The book notes: "InstaBook is the brainchild of Victor Celorio, who has developed a machine that can transform anyone's manuscript, recipes or anything into a hardbound book in a short period of time. ... The InstaBook Digital Bookstore and Self-Publishing Center is the first system in the world specifically developed to be deployed at the bookstore level and has received many patents around the world. Their Web site (www.insta- book.net) boasts many testimonials from satisfied customers."
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow InstaBook to pass Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)#Primary criteria, which requires "significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 01:36, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The article may have been edited by conflict of interest editors in the past. I reviewed the current version of the article and find it to be neutrally written. The established editor Eddie.willers (talk · contribs) created the article. I could not find any evidence that Eddie.willers has a conflict of interest with InstaBook. There is no support in policy or precedent for deleting an article created by an established editor with no conflict of interest with the subject after some editors who are said have a conflict of interest with the subject contributed to that article. Cunard (talk) 01:36, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per sources identified by Cunard. Even without these sources, I would have opposed deletion since no valid deletion rationale has been offered, nor has evidence of a WP:BEFORE been provided. There is no reason provided why any COI that may be present cannot be addressed editorially. The WP:WEBHOST policy primarily applies to userspace and is thus not a rationale for deletion, and WP:COIEDIT is not a reason for deletion since such edits are not prohibited (just strongly discouraged). Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:43, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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