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Which brings me to the subject of this column: a snapshot of the globally transforming paper industry, the state of book-paper supply, and how the present outlook shapes your paper usage and purchasing strategies.
As long as print products are foundational to the publishing industry’s revenue base, it will be the state of the forest-products industry and print-manufacturing technologies that shape our economics of survival. I hate to say it, but it’s very much analogous to the relationship of energy sources to styling and performance in the auto industry. Dwindling energy supplies or skyrocketing prices can severely limit automobile use.
Eugene G. Schwartz is editor at large for ForeWord Reviews, an industry observer and an occasional columnist for Book Business magazine. In an earlier career, he was in the printing business and held production management positions at Random House, Prentice-Hall/Goodyear and CRM Books/Psychology Today. A former PMA (IBPA) board member, he has headed his own publishing consultancy, Consortium House. He is also Co-Founder of Worthy Shorts Inc., a development stage online private press and publication service for professionals as well as an online back office publication service for publishers and associations. He is on the Publishing Business Conference and Expo Advisory Board.