12 Profitable Book-Production Tips for Publishers and Printers
For some insight on the tried-and-true as well as the new, I got in touch with a cross-section of vendors to offer some reminders of what works and why it is valuable to be both virtuous and skeptical.
Courier Corp.
Courier (www.Courier.com) is the third-largest book manufacturer in the United States, and last year shipped 200 million books from its six networked U.S. plants. It is unique in the industry since it also owns (and prints for) Dover Publications, Creative Homeowner and REA, with 10,000 titles in print among them.
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.