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With New Plan, APP Works to Win Back Customers
After announcing it had discontinued sourcing paper from threatened Indonesian rainforests, a representative of Singapore-based Asia Pulp & Paper, the third-largest paper supplier in the world, was in New York last week to explain the policy to children’s book publishers.
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Young Writers Graduate: Future Authors Project
Over the past eight years, more than 300 Florida middle and high school students graduated from aspiring writer to published author, thanks to the Océ Future Authors Project.
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Cambridge Completes Warehouse Sale
Cambridge University Press has completed the sale of its U.S. warehouse and distribution facility in West Nyack, N.Y. CUP announced plans to sell the warehouse as part of a strategic process that included an agreement last summer with Ingram Publisher Services to have Ingram manage the warehousing and distribution of the press’s U.S. printed inventory.
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Distribution: Random House, Verso Agree
Verso Books and Random House Publisher Services have agreed to partner, beginning July 1, 2013. RHPS will provide exclusive sales and distribution across all print and digital formats in North America for Verso's 80 titles per year.
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Distribution: Midpoint and Digital Leaf Agree
Midpoint Trade Books has signed a distribution deal with Digital Leaf, a London-based children’s book and app publisher.
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Distribution: Prometheus and Random House Publisher Services Agree
Prometheus Books announced today a multiyear sales and distribution partnership with Random House Publisher Services (RHPS), beginning April 1, 2013, RHPS will provide exclusive sales and distribution for all Prometheus physical and digital titles in the United States and internationally.
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Distribution: Quayside, Midpoint Sign Deals
Quayside will provide American distribution for the Aurum Publishing Group and Jacqui Small from 2013. The adult titles of Frances Lincoln will be distributed by Quayside as of April 1, 2013. In a separate agreement, Midpoint Trade Books has signed a distribution deal with New Holland UK
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Harper and Rainforest Action Network Collide Over New Warning
A new advisory from the Rainforest Action Network that some of HarperCollins's children's books contain fiber from vulnerable rainforests has brought an angry reply from the publisher.
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Hachette Updates Environmental Progress
In its annual report on the progress it has made in hitting various environmental goals, Hachette Book Group said today that it is ahead of pace in two key areas but behind in a third. HBG has already surpassed its target for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions as well as for the use of Forest Stewardship Council paper, but is behind its goal in increasing the use of recycled paper.
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Wordclay to Close December 31
Wordclay.com, an online, bare-bones Do-it-Yourself service for print book publishing owned by Author Solutions, Inc. announced that it will close its virtual doors on December 31. In a statement, Worldclay said the increased preference for e-book publishing over print by self-published authors was the reason it was closing down.
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Distribution: Edinburgh University Press and Oxford University Press Agree
Edinburgh University Press, the third largest university press in the U.K., has appointed Oxford University Press as its exclusive agent in North and South America and Canada beginning August 1, 2013.
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Distribution: Bilingual Books Moving to PGW
Bilingual Books has entered into a distribution agreement with Publishers Group West for PGW to handle the U.S. sales, marketing and distribution of BBKS’ approximately 40 language-learning titles.
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U Chicago Press Signs Two New Distribution Clients
The University of Chicago Press has signed two new distribution clients: the American Alliance of Museums Press and the Missouri History Museum.
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In Deal with Donnelley, Harper Exits Warehouse Business
HarperCollins and R.R. Donnelley have signed a new agreement that will create one centralized warehouse that will serve as the distribution site for all HC U.S. titles, including those published by its Christian publishing division that houses Zondervan and Thomas Nelson. Harper said it expects the new facility to be opened next summer and that it will close its two warehouses in Scranton, Penn. and Nashville.
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Digital Printing 2012
Our complete Digital Printing in 2012 supplement.
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Optimizing Profitability In a Blended Production Environment: Digital Printing in 2012
To take advantage of the many exciting opportunities in the book market today, you need a partner that understands your business and offers a variety of tailored solutions.
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The Optimal Production Model for Today—and Tomorrow: Digital Printing in 2012
High-speed inkjet printing has been described as the biggest development in book publishing in the past 50 years.
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A Solution for Right Now: Digital Printing in 2012
General George S. Patton Jr. once famously said that "A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later."
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A Publisher's Dream: Never Overprint Again: Digital Printing in 2012
For decades, large and small publishers alike have wrestled with one simple but crucial question about their books, on which success and failure often hang in the balance: How many copies should we print?
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Find Cost Efficiency Adapting Printing To Today's Realities: Digital Printing in 2012
The book publishing industry is dealing with two conflicting trends at the moment: the number of individual titles produced continues to rise while the number of print units sold continues to fall.
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