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Though the deal has yet to be finalized, Marceline, MO-based Walsworth Publishing has tentatively agreed to buy magazine and journal printer Ovid Bell Press of Fulton, MO for an undisclosed sum.

Walsworth marketing and communications VP Alex Blackwell, told PrintWeek, "We’ve entered into an agreement to purchase Ovid Bell, but the acquisition has not gone through. The estimated close date is December 31 of this year."

Blackwell said he could not comment on how Ovid Bell will be integrated into Walsworth until the deal was completed."

[Press Release] Ann Arbor, MI (November 29, 2012)—For over a century, Edwards Brothers Malloy has been a leader in 1- and 2-color book manufacturing.  With the purchase of a 40” Heidelberg Speedmaster offset sheetfed press dedicated to 4-color text work, Edwards Brothers Malloy can now offer 4-color book and journal printing in runs from one to 3,000 copies.  The Heidelberg offset press will be fully operational in the company’s State Street plant in Ann Arbor by the middle of January 2013.

NOVEMBER 15, 2012 - Dexter, Mich. -- Thomson-Shore, a book manufacturer specializing in short- to medium-run digital and offset book printing, binding and publishing services, has entered into an agreement to serve as the preferred U.S.
book manufacturer for Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

If you've been following the printing world—and if you're reading this column we've got a hunch that you have—you know that advances in digital printing have transformed the technology from the world of the small-run to a viable print-on-demand option for publishers of all sizes and stripes. But don't be fooled: Digital and offset lithography remain quite different beasts.

One of the world’s most recognised book formats is now available as a self-publishing option for photographers looking to create print on demand photo books.

Moleskine Photo Books launches this month, offering snazzy photo books and albums featuring the iconic Moleskin cover, rounded corners, elastic closure, and expandable pocket.

While the Moleskine name ensures your photo book is going to look good on the outside, a partnership with PQ Backwell – the company behind award-wing MILK tailor made photo books – means the insides are going to be just as polished.

Look at the publishing news these days and you'll read as much about devices as you do about books. There are new families of Kindles, Kobos and Nooks on the block; Google's Nexus 7 is outselling the Kindle Fire; Microsoft is betting big on its Surface tablet; oh, and maybe you've heard about an iPad mini coming 'round the bend? And let's not even get into the wild world of smartphones. Point is, while the printed book was once a platform unto itself, now the ways people read "books," and the devices they read on, are expanding.

“This is a book you cannot read on a Kindle,” Stephen Marche says proudly. “It’s not possible to do. This is a physical book, and the experience of holding it in your hands is integral to its reality.” The thing that makes Marche’s third novel so resistant to digitization is its form. Between the covers is a poignant, fractured narrative of adultery and madness that is sometimes laid out in parallel columns like a script, sometimes in typographic patterns like concrete poetry, and sometimes like flowing waves set sideways.

In the age of digital mobile content, eBooks, apps, tablets and dynamic publishing, many of us still desire the company of a printed, hardbound book. We love our computerized gadgets, but we also yearn for the feeling that only a well-designed hardback book can provide. But, chances are, few of us understand how hardbound books are made. In this short, but mesmerizing video, you’ll see how the folks at Smith Settle bookbinders bring a hardback book to life. [click through for video]

Acme Bookbinding Company (Acme) and The HF Group (HFG) are pleased to announce a new partnership and that, effective immediately, these two established family businesses have merged.

This summer, Harper­Collins announced it would be launching a global publishing program called Harper­Collins 360, designed to increase availability of the publisher's titles across all English-speaking markets.

The idea is to use a network of print-on-demand [POD] facilities located in regional warehouses so that any title in English will be available in any English-language market, making rights, and not technology or geography, the only impediment to getting a book into a customer's hands.