This is the latest and greatest version, and so I think it automates one or two steps that CreateSpace still does by hand, but this is a terrific illustration of the publish-on-demand technology being used now by companies like CreateSpace.
What this will eventually allow is that you could have a machine like this anywhere — Wal-Mart, the public library, the local copy shop — and literally be able to purchase a physical copy of any book ever written in a couple of minutes.