Special Report: Printers' Outlook: Not Your Father's (or Mother's) Book Manufacturers
Beisser: What can you say to publishers about maximizing their relationships with their book manufacturing partners?
Twomey: Opportunities abound for domestic printers who can offer full service and rapid turn times in digital, conventional and e‑book formats. … Publishers should expect their printer to be a part of meeting these many challenges. Printers should be partnering with book publishers to better bundle print and digital formats. POD capacity will allow publishers to economically print smaller and more frequent reprint orders. They also allow publishers to launch targeted, niche books that were not economic conventionally. The loss of Borders stores is likely to be offset by some new entrants and by book offerings in non-conventional locations.