Victor Celorio

Victor Celorio
Inventor Victor Celorio at Home in Gainesville, Fl., 2009
Born	Victor Manuel Celorio Garrido (1957-07-27) July 27, 1957 Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality	Mexican, American
Occupation	Writer, Inventor
Known for	InstaBook[1]
Website	www.victorcelorio.com

Victor Celorio (born July 27, 1957 in Mexico City) is an author, entrepreneur, inventor, and former union organizer. He is best known as the inventor of InstaBook, a digital printing technology.^[2] He lives and works in Gainesville, Florida.

Career

As an inventor, Celorio obtained patents for the technology popularly known as InstaBook or Book On Demand,^[3] as well as that of distributed printing technology in which a digital file is distributed among as many printing centers as required for immediate production and delivery. (US PATENTS 6012890,^[4] 6213703,^[5] Chinese Patent 97705, Mexican Patent 241092, others^[6]). On March 28, 2012, in decision number 2012-000170 the USPTO rejected some of the objections presented by a third party to Celorio patent 6,2137,03, and some of the patent's nineteen claims. Celorio decided to appeal to the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FEDERAL CIRCUIT. And on 2013, seven claims of that patent were fully validated by the Federal Court of Appeals, (see appeal number 13-1194) and the patent itself declared valid.

In the late eighties, he created a digital network of print on demand centers around Mexico City, and in the nineties he founded InstaBook Corporation, a company to market the technology that became known as Print on Demand or Book on Demand.^[7][8]

Celorio is also a writer and publisher of several books. In an interview published in The Seybold Report, written by George A. Alexander, (2002)^[9] Victor Celorio described his love affair with books since he was a child. He knew he wanted to be a writer from the time he was 10 years old and he published his first short story at the age of 14 in a magazine called Al Sur del Sur.

Bibliography

Inventor Victor Celorio operating one of his InstaBook, book making machines.

As an author, Celorio has published six books, both in Spanish and in English. His titles include one of the first books ever distributed through the Internet. The book was entitled Proyecto Mexico (Blue Unicorn Editions Florida, 1995, ISBN 1-58396-059-7). This work is a political essay published in 1995 in which the author proposes that Mexico, his country of origin, lacks a long-term project as a country. Therefore, all political remedies to the problems affecting that country will lack a global goal and will be short term in nature. Thus, Mexico as a country will go from one short-term solution to the next short-term solution until a true national project is negotiated among all political parties.

Further reading

There have been about 200 articles about Celorio and his book-printing invention, written by, among others, The New York Times, Forbes, Seybold Report, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune, and the Rochester Institute of Technology; and interviews in National Public Radio; etc.

This short list includes a few of the US published articles as a sample. There have been articles written in many other countries (Canada, Mexico, Germany, Italy, India, China, etc.).

References

External links

• InstaBook official website