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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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Georgetown Terminal Warehouses Begins POD Printing in Canada
Distributor Georgetown Terminal Warehouses in Ontario begins POD publishing in Canada in a partnership with Illinois-based Publishers' Graphics.
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Gale and Wolper Sign Distribution Agreement
Gale and Wolper Information Services have partnered to distribute Gale subscription products and major reference works in print and electronic form into the special library market.
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Distribution: PGW Signs Interlink and Salon
Effective immediately Publishers Group West will begin providing digital distribution services through Constellation for Interlink Publishing and Salon.
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Distribution: Spry Signs with Perseus
Perseus and Spry Publishing have entered into a multi-year print and digital sales and distribution agreement covering U.S. and international markets. The agreement takes effect June 1, 2012.
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IBT Buys Hamilton Printing
More consolidation in the book manufacturing space as digital printing specialist Integrated Book Technology, Inc. has acquired the web offset printer Hamilton Printing Company.
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Distribution in a Digital Age
Distribution has always been about maximizing warehouses, people, and technology. Even with fewer bricks-and-mortar bookstores and less shelf space, dedicated distributors and publishers that offer client services are upping their game by investing in technology and equipment and offering print-on-demand, digital short-run printing, and e-book conversion and distribution.
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Ingram Acquires Two EPAC Plants, Licenses POD Technology
Ingram Content Group has reached an agreement with EPAC Technologies to license its printing technology. In addition Ingram is also acquiring two EPAC print facilities in the U.S. and a development group in Germany.
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