Today In Book Publishing
It includes a 50,000-sq.-ft. addition, a new eight-color, 41˝ Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 UV perfector, and a Kolbus perfect binder.
Conference will bring together publishers, manufacturers, and other segments of the supply chain to help educate those involved in printing books.
For partisans of print and brick-and-mortar bookstores, the nonprofit industry research agency BookNet Canada has happy news.
In a letter, Reed's BookExpo event director Jennifer Martin announces a shortened trade show for 2020 despite what she says were successful bookseller programs in 2019. The post BookExpo Announces a Shorter Trade Show for 2020 in New York City appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA), a non-profit trade group for digital and screen printing professionals, announced today that it has acquired NAPCO Media, the parent company of Book Business and publisher of multiple brands serving the printing, promotional products, retail, non-profit, media, and marketing industries.
The second largest printer of books in the United States announced that it plans to exit the business.
Quad and LSC decided that the added delay, uncertainty, and legal costs would have eroded many of the expected benefits of the merger.
Pearson signaled a strategic commitment to the digital future of higher education, affordability and lifelong learning by announcing it is breaking from the traditional education publishing model of lengthy and expensive print revisions.
Decades of historical precedent suggest that, now that the shortages and price increases of 2018 have ended, publishers should soon benefit from lower paper costs. But don’t hold your breath waiting for history to repeat itself. Prices for publication papers have stabilized since late last year, and the usual post-peak glut and price slashing don’t…
Here are five areas of strategic impact that both publishers and printers need to look at and plan to work with.