Boy, I just spent quite some time researching "Hey, how is book scanning to the edge these days." This is a rabbit hole I do to myself every once in a while when the opportunity comes to scan a magazine or book with tiny tiny tiny margins on the inner fold. 
Usually, my journey alights at the first stop - Plustek scanners. But while everything looks great, Plusteks put a 6mm margin in, which sounds really small, but isn't with magazines, where it matters.
Somewhere along, I find myself with Scannx (Rebranded Xeroxes), which MIGHT have smaller margins but probably don't.
Scanning magazines without pulling them apart is goddamned tough. I found a patent for a zero-margin scanner mechanism (US7538915) but I'm not convinced that anyone has implemented it.
Every time you see a good scan of a magazine, on Internet Archive or elsewhere, someone probably sliced the magazine apart (or removed the staples, so the magazine became a series of twice-the-page-size single sheets.
The quest continues. I need to just be patient until some scanner comes along where FRONT AND CENTER they announce zero-margin scanning.
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