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You will hear about the opportunities, workflows and investments needed to succeed in the growing book manufacturing business.

Publishers Weekly President George Slowik Jr. discusses how COVID-19 is hitting the book industry and what PW is doing to help.

Learn to utilize digital printing to reduce lifecycle costs of warehousing, decrease time-to-market, and increase backlist revenue.

Learn the workflow, organizational, and cultural shifts needed in order to pursue more flexible and profitable fulfillment models.

The chart you see above is from Gallup and Pew measuring the percentage of adults in the U.S. who have not read a single book in the year measured. It was 8% in 1978 and has been hovering at 23-27% in recent years. This is not a trend one associates with a growth industry. Meanwhile,…

Tariffs up to 32% on Canadian uncoated groundwood, including newsprint, is hurting newspapers, directories, books and circulars.

Despite what she described as a “tumultuous year in both the U.S. and around the world” in her year-end letter to S&S employees, S&S CEO and president Carolyn Reidy hailed 2016 as “a period of relative stability in the publishing marketplace.” In her letter, Reidy cited a year of bookselling success for S&S, led by…

The hoped for post-election and holiday season sales bounce does not seem to be materializing. Unit sales of print books were down almost 6% between Thanksgiving week and the week ended December 18, 2016 compared to the similar period in 2015 at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Perhaps the most worrisome for booksellers and…

WASHINGTON — December 20, 2016 — Childrens and Young Adult titles grew 31.1% in July 2016 vs. July 2016, with the majority of that growth coming from hardback books. While revenue for Trade Books grew in April, May, June and July, the gains were not enough to counter declines from earlier in the year, and…

Positive reports from The FutureBook Conference indicate that audiobook use is on the rise, especially in the US, the UK, and Sweden. In Canada, audiobook use has been the focus of an in-depth survey. At the end of last month, BookNet Canada released Are You Still Listening? Audiobook Use in Canada 2016, a survey of audiobook…