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Kodansha Buys HP Digital Inkjet Press for Short-Run Printing
Japanese publishing house Kodansha has taken the unusual step of purchasing its own HP T300 digital color inkjet Web press.
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Ingram Signs Warehouse, Fulfillment Deal with Cambridge University Press
Ingram has signed a long-term agreement with Cambridge University Press that will give Ingram responsibility for CUP’s North American warehousing and fulfillment functions.
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CodeMantra Buys Prepress Firm Preparé Inc.
CodeMantra has acquired Preparé Inc., a prepress and composition company with operations in Upper Saddle River, N.J. and Italy.
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Edwards Brothers, Malloy Merge
Edwards Brothers and Malloy Inc., both based in Ann Arbor, have combined to create Edwards Brothers Malloy.
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MPS Limited: A New Chapter
ADI BPO Services took over Bangalore-based MPS Limited, a Macmillan company, last fall and earlier this week the company announced a new board of directors with ADI BPO director Nishith Arora assuming the role of chairman of MPS Limited.
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Webcom, Gasch Printing Add Digital Presses
The trend towards printers adding digital presses continues with Webcom and Gasch Printing installing new equipment.
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Perseus Inks Composition Pact with Typéfi Systems
The Perseus Book Group has reached an agreement with Typéfi Systems to implement the Typéfi Publish System, an automated composition technology that allows both print and e-pub versions of a book to be easily formatted with XML.
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Knopf's High-End Print Package for '1Q84' Pays Off
It's just under a thousand pages. It's a work in translation. It got a not-so-glowing review from the New York Times. Following standard publishing wisdom, Haruki Murakami's newest work, 1Q84, should not be the out-of-the-gate hit it is.
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Penguin In Short-Run Deal with Quad/Graphics
Quad/Graphics has inked a deal with Penguin for the Wisconsin printer to use its short-run and print-on-demand capability to support what it calls a “virtual inventory” model for some Penguin titles, with Quad printing selected titles in small quantities.
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Manufacturing 2011: Staying Relevant
Not that long ago book manufacturers and paper suppliers looked at digital print production as a wholly unwelcome alternative to the honored publishing tradition of putting real ink on real paper.
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Ingram Adds Germany's Books On Demand to Global Connect
Ingram Content Group has added to its Global Connect program, reaching an alliance with Germany’s Books On Demand to print and fulfill orders in that country.
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Espresso Book Machine Adds Harper Backlist
On Demand Books's Espresso Book Machine, which has just a couple dozen booksellers using the printer, hopes its fortunes will change now that it has reached an agreement with HarperCollins.
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Firebrand Taps Don Linn to Head Affiliate Company
Book industry services company Firebrand Technology has started an affiliate company, Firebrand Associates, that will be overseen by Don Linn, former owner and CEO of Consortium and publisher of Taunton Press.
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Faber Upgrades Digital Distribution Service in Deal with Constellation
Faber has announced a considerable enhancement to its Faber Factory digital service for independent publishers.
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Paper Cuts
The printed book is facing its share of challenges in the digital age. But one of the biggest problems facing the future of the book has gone relatively unnoticed by book lovers—the quality of paper being used in many first edition hardcovers is declining, saddling consumers with inferior products and presenting libraries with a looming preservation crisis.
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Ingram Launches Global Connect
Looking to utilize its network of printing facilities in different parts of the world, Ingram Content Group has launched Global Connect, a new program that will allow publishers in any country to print and distribute titles in countries where Ingram has its own operations as well as in countries of one of its partners. To that end, Ingram has signed an agreement with Singular Digital, a leading book manufacturer in Brazil, to become its first Global Connect partner.
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CPSIA Amendment Excluding Ordinary Children's Books Signed into Law
On Friday, President Obama signed into law an amendment to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 that excludes "ordinary" children's books from the law’s third-party testing and certification provisions, and promises to make testing less burdensome for novelty and book-plus publishers.
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Looking for the Right Number
What should first print runs be for frontlist titles this fall? Publishers are struggling mightily with this question, given the growth of e-book sales and the decline of print. With units of print sales down 10.2% in the first half of 2011, per Nielsen BookScan figures reported in PW last week, the question for the fall is not if first printings will be cut, but by how much.
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Industry Receives Environmental Update
Last week, the Book Industry Environmental Council (BIEC) held a webinar outlining the recommendations of three newly-released guides to reducing carbon emissions, developed in cooperation with the Green Press Initiative. Based on a GPI report published in 2008, the guides set specific goals and ways to reach them in three industry sectors: publishers, printers, and paper manufacturers.
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