The first two EBMs were set up in 2006: one in the World Bank’s InfoShop in Washington, D.C., and the other at Egypt’s Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the re-creation of the ancient library. A third machine had a three-month trial run at the New York Public Library in 2007. Several versions later, there are now over 50 of them worldwide, in places like the Harvard Bookstore, London’s Blackwell Bookshop and Tokyo’s Books Sanseido.