>Recently I read a book (I have already forgotten the name and author), where they mentioned a process where instead of large book stores, these same stores print the book on demand. They had computer archive of every book and the customer comes in, sit at a computer, selects the book, and then goes to a counter to picks up the hard copy. Also, there were coffee stand as there are now.

Such publishers exist on the web - look up lulu.com, trafford.com, these I looked up (and even sort of published some of my stuff there). BYOC.