The Fall Issue of Book Business will once again feature the Top 20 Book Manufacturers ranking. Book Business relies on self-reported data and we are calling on printers to submit their information in order to be considered for the annual ranking.
Ellen Harvey
HarperCollins Publishers has undertaken a publishing automation program to accelerate book production over the past year. This program encompassed a change in their internal workflows and content transformations into ePubs. How did they do it and what were the lessons learned? Please join Leslie Padgett, Senior Director, Global Digital Operations at HarperCollins and Eliot Kimber, Senior Solutions Architect at RSI Content Solutions, as they give you the answer in this one hour webinar.
Last week Book Business's sister publication Printing Impressions launched its PI Xchange Live video series, featuring live interviews with top printing executives. The inaugural interviewee was RR Donnelley president and CEO Thomas J. Quinlan III. Quinlan sat down with Printing Impressions editorial director Mark Michelson to discuss RRD's organic growth strategy, how to best integrate diverse corporate cultures following an acquisition, and his outlook regarding the future and evolution of the printing industry.
Today Macmillan becomes the third Big 5 publisher to make its works available on ebook subscriptions sites Oyster and Scribd, joining HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. The move to subscription comes as no surprise. In a year-end letter to staff Macmillan CEO John Sargent wrote that, "We plan to try subscription with backlist books, and mostly with titles that are not well represented at bricks and mortar retail stores."
After a decade of growing pains, digital printing has come into its own. This webinar explores distinct printing models and provides concrete examples from publishers who have successfully integrated digital printing into their business.
The book industry is rapidly changing, with new technologies regularly disrupting the market. In an attempt to keep our readers informed of the latest ideas and innovations pushing the industry forward, Book Business brings you The Futurists. This blog will showcase burgeoning companies that are shaking up book publishing, be they tech startups, innovative presses, or a mixture of the two.