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As an inventor, Celorio obtained patents for the technology popularly known as InstaBook or Book On Demand, as well as that of Distributed Printing technology in which an e-book is distributed among as many printing centers as required for immediate production and delivery, thereby creating a vast network of digital bookstores and libraries. (US PATENTS 6012890, Electronic bookstore vending machine - Patent 6012890 at freepatentsonline.com 6213703, Electronic bookstore vending machine - Patent 6213703 at freepatentsonline.com Chinese Patent 97705, Mexican Patent 241092, others). On Dec 14, 2009, the USPTO rejected the objections presented by a third party to InstaBook patent 6,2137,03.

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

In an interview published in The Seybold Report, written by George A. Alexander, (2002) 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. But growing up in Mexico, a country which is famous for its lack of bookstores, Celorio had a permanent hunger for books.

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 where 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.

His books include:

• Espejo de Obsidiana, short-story collection, 1981, Union de Escritores Libres Mexicanos, ISBN 1-891355-09-0
• El Unicornio Azul, novel, fiction, 1985, Grupp Editorial, ISBN 1-58396-063-5
• The Blue Unicorn, novel, fiction, 1990, Blue Unicorn Editions, ISBN 1-58396-064-3
• Proyecto Mexico, political essay, 1995, Blue Unicorn Editions, ISBN 1-58396-059-7
• Blood Relatives, fiction, 1997, Blue Unicorn Editions, ISBN 1-891355-66-X
• Twisted Gods, fiction thriller, 1999, Blue Unicorn Editions, ISBN 1-891355-91-0

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.).

• Applebome, Peter ”Our Towns; Have a Seat. Your Novel Will Be Out Momentarily.” September 12, 2004, New York Times. Available online at [1]
• Alexander, George A. “The InstaBook Maker: book printing eases into the bookstore”, The Seybold Report: Analyzing Publishing Technologies, Seybold Publications.
• Callea, Donna. “E-publisher Makes Mark” Daytona Beach Press. Available online at Archives
• Edwards, Steve. “InstaBook Launches ‘Books-On-Demand’”, May 26, 2004, The Seybold Report: Analyzing Publishing Technologies, Seybold Publications. Available online at [2]
• Haack, Douglas F. “The Simpleton Author’s Guide to“Self-Book Publishing and Printing”, 04, 2000. Available online at [3]
• Kleper, Michael L. ”The Handbook of Digital Publishing”. Vol. II. By, Rochester Institute of Technology. Page 565, Published by Prentis Hall, 2000 , ISBN 0-13-029371-7 Encyclopedia of Printing Technologies in 2 Volumes. Available online at [4]
• Lapidus, Paul. “Helping authors get into print” The Record, North Jersey News, July 12, 2006. Available online at [5]
• Lerner, Michael, “New technology prints books while you wait”, Forbes Magazine, 06.04.99
• Mutter, John . “U.S. Debut for In-Store, On-Demand Machines” Publishers Weekly. 5/17/2004. Available online at [6]
• Nishi, Dennis. “Publishing turns page with print on demand” Chicago Tribune Feb 14, 2004. Available online at [7]
• Taub, Eric A. “For Budding Authors, a Rapid-Fire Publisher”, New York Times, June 10, 2004. Available online at [8]
• Zeitchik, Steven. “Jersey Bookseller Becomes Publisher, Too” Publishers Weekly Daily for Booksellers — 4/29/2004. Available online at [9]
• Zeitchik, Steven, “When We Are All Publishers” by Publishers Weekly NewsLine...4/28/2004. Available online at [10]