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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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Digital Printing and Kodak
This week's issue of Publishers Weekly magazine includes a feature on how digital printing is changing book production and the printer-publisher relationship. There is also a supplement on Kodak's role in that transition.
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Building the New Business Model: Printing and Paper 2012
The digital transformation of publishing—kicked into high gear by devices like the iPad, the Kindle, and the Nook—is one of the top business stories of the turn of the millennium.
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The Age of Digital Printing: Printing and Paper 2012
Digital print production has long been heralded for its ability to offer publishers the capability to economically produce books as needed and in smaller quantities than traditional offset printing.
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Distribution: Midpoint Signs Bunker Hill
Midpoint Trade Books has signed a distribution deal with Bunker Hill Publishing, a New Hampshire-based independent publisher.
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Taking the Reading Out of Readings
Early last month Junot Díaz nearly caused a riot when hundreds of fans descended on the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York City to hear the author read from his latest, This Is How You Lose Her. But, to put it mildly, not every author is Junot Díaz, and getting a crowd to hear you read is tricky. Publicists and authors say that one key is putting the emphasis of the event less on the, well, reading.
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Easypress Technologies Signs HarperCollins UK to Its Cloud Platform
Easypress Technologies, a book production software developer, is launching Book Publishing in the Cloud, a new technology platform it claims can cut the costs and time required to produce print and digital titles by as much as 50%. The new service is said to allow publishers to produce even more books in less time without further outsourcing, while using their current staff, internal resources and existing print production and workflow process.
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Distribution: Bookmasters Signs Knox Robinson
Bookmasters has signed an agreement with British publisher Knox Robinson Publishing to distribute their range of historical novels in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America.
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Ingram Makes Color Print-On-Demand More Economical
Ingram Content Group has announced a new “standard color” pricing model for print-on-demand technology that has reduced costs by roughly two-thirds, making color POD an economical publishing option for the first time.
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Printing in Hong Kong 2012: The Tough Get Going
This February saw 21 provinces in China hiking their minimum wage, many by double digits. Inland provinces like Henan, Anhui, Sichuan, and Guangxi saw the largest hikes, ranging from 22% to 35%. Manufacturing hub Shenzhen, which had the biggest one-time wage hike of the past 19 years in March 2011 (20%), now has its minimum wage further increased by 14%, to 1,500 yuan (or $240) per month. (So say good-bye to the good old days of cheap Chinese labor.)
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Distribution: Random House Extends With Wizards of the Coast
Random House has announced a multi-year extension of its sales and distribution partnership with Wizards of the Coast LLC, which began in 2005. Wizards of the Coast is the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons and other popular fantasy and sci-fi series.
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Distribution: Ingram Signs Agreement with Destiny Image
Ingram has announced an agreement with Destiny Image Publishers to grow the reach of its Christian publishing program to more book buyers worldwide.
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Distribution: Perseus and Zagat Agree
Perseus and Zagat Survey have announced that in addition to their current distribution agreement, as of May 1, 2012, Perseus has also taken over sales for Zagat in the U.S. for field, mass merchandise, specialty and gift accounts and will handle sales to all accounts in Canada.
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Led by Self Publishing, ‘Traditional’ Title Output Rose 6% in 2011
The number of traditionally published print books rose 6% in 2011, to 347,178, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday morning by Bowker.
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