Gene Therapy
Industry consolidation and contraction is a response to this dismal financial performance. It is balanced by increasing efficiencies, decreasing demand (remember, we’re talking about book-publishing papers), and a growing global marketplace––especially in Northern Europe, China, Indonesia and elsewhere in Asia––that is leapfrogging U.S. protectionism and shipping imported papers, especially coated stocks, when needed to meet demand.
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.