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CTPS Rocks the Asian Print Industry with HP T300
The Asian printscape, known the world over for its decades-old offset printing expertise, witnessed a transformational shift last Friday when major educational/lightweight book manufacturer CTPS unveiled its HP T300 inkjet web press. At an open house organized by HP—in conjunction with its Now Go Digital seminar— more than 200 people from the region’s media and industry supply chain had their first look at the new technology in Dongguan, southern China.
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Ingram, O'Reilly in Inventory Management Deal
Ingram Content Group has struck an agreement with O’Reilly Media for Ingram to manage most of the publisher's print inventory. According to Ingram’s Phil Ollila, O’Reilly has been working with Ingram's print-on-demand options during the five years Ingram has served as the publisher's distributor and is now comfortable that moving more printing to pod to will free up cash to be used on the acquisition of content rather than on printing and print management.
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Lightning to Open in Melbourne
The Ingram Content Group has picked Melbourne as the site for its next Lightning Source print-on-demand book manufacturing operation. Last fall, Ingram had announced plans to open in Australia, and in a release today said it chose Melbourne for its proximity to a large concentration of major publishers and book distributors and to key metropolitan regions in the country. Lightning will occupy a building at the Scoresby industrial park in the southeastern suburb of Melbourne. Ingram plans to open the facility in June.
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HP Introduces Latest Inkjet Printer
With publishing executives and media flown in to Los Angeles from across the country, HP gave a major push to launch its new 42-inch wide T400 press, the newest entrant in its portfolio of color inkjet imaging systems. One of seven book publishing executives attending the event commented that, given the "steady and stepwise" success of the narrower HP systems over the past five years, the 42” press, constituting the world’s largest such format, is "sure to change the game in book manufacturing."
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Courier to Close Stoughton Plant
Courier Corp. announced Tuesday that it will close its printing plant in Stoughton, Mass. on April 30. The facility, Courier's smallest and which employs 110 people, focused primarily on manufacturing one-color books, mainly paperbacks. The demand for paperbacks has fallen in recent years and Courier has put more of its resources into four-color production using equipment that can do shorter, more efficient print runs.
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CPSIA Update: Congressional Committee Holds Hearing on Implementation
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade held a hearing on February 17 called “A Review of CPSIA and CPSC Resources,” which examined the implementation and consequences of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.
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BookMobile Creates Poetry App
BookMobile, the Minneapolis book production and distribution company specializing in serving the needs of university and literary presses, is using its know-how regarding print book design and e-book conversion to break new ground. Company representatives will introduce to publishers gathered at AWP in Washington this week Ampersand, a poetry app that will enable e-readers and other electronic devices to display poetry without inappropriate line breaks and arbitrary indents.
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Media Services Group Buys Veridean Publishing Assets
Media Services Group, a developer of integrated publishing and event management software, has acquired the publishing assets of Veridean Technology Solutions, an Internet strategies and solutions provider. Media Services has rolled the publishing assets of Veridean into a new e-commerce division that will be under the direction of Tom Jensen, former CTO of Penton Media.
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Malloy Steps Up to Fill Demand for 'Book of Awakening'
The college town of Ann Arbor, Mich., has recently been the unlikely hotbed for the production of a number of national bestsellers. Thomson-Shore, in nearby Dexter, produced the first volume of The Autobiography of Mark Twain, and Malloy, which is in Ann Arbor, produced The Book of Awakening, which was selected as one of "Oprah's Ultimate Favorite Things," leading to a six-week run on PW’s bestseller list, including a stint in the #1 spot.
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Andrew Sullivan Turns Again to Blurb
For the second time, author, editor, and blogger Andrew Sullivan has taken reader content on his 10-year-old Daily Dish blog on the Atlantic Web site and created a crowd-sourced printed book published by Blurb and sold through its online bookstore. Last Friday Sullivan blogged about how the book, The Cannabis Closet, grew out of an extensive number of Daily Dish readers writing candidly about their pot use. By early this week, Blurb had sold 1,000 copies of the print-on-demand paperback priced at $5.95.
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Thomson-Shore Buys Bessenberg Bindery
Thomson-Shore has acquired the Bessenberg Bindery, a specialty hand bindery located in Ann Arbor, Mich. With the deal, Thomson-Shore has acquired Bessenberg's Books as Art™ capabilities that will allow T-S to do high quality, custom made books for as few as one copy.
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Producing a Holiday Miracle
With the holiday season heating up, Thomson-Shore and the University of California Press are working closely together to make sure that the season's sleeper hit—The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, edited by the Mark Twain Project at the University of California–Berkeley—reaches eager, and anxious, booksellers before Christmas.
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Qoop Offers POD Service for Google Books Public Domain Titles
Qoop, a free online social commerce and on-demand studio community, has joined with Google Books to offer consumers the ability to order print on demand editions of public domain titles through the Qoop Web site. The new deal will put a Qoop link in the "get the book" section on each of the two million public domain titles in Google Books listings.
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Ingram to Open POD Facility in Australia
Ingram Content Group this week announced plans to open a networked Lightning Source print-on-demand book production facility in Australia. The new Australian POD manufacturing plant will manufacture both paperback and hardcover black and white interior books and should begin operation in June 2011.
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At 'Innovation Summit,' Pearson, Hewlett Packard Tout Inkjet Printing for Books
For years now, publishers have heard how digital will kill print. But at the Hewlett Packard Innovation Summit, held September 20 at the Eventi Hotel in New York City, HP and Pearson officials told PW how HP's new generation of digital inkjet printers are making print better, offering more efficiency and the same quality as offset presses.
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IPS Adds Fox Chapel and Vantage
Five-year-old Ingram Publisher Services, an Ingram Content Group company, now has 66 active clients with the addition of Fox Chapel Publishing in East Petersburg, Pa., and Vantage Press in New York City.
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Quad/Graphics Completes World Color Purchase
Sussex, Wisc.-based Quad/Graphics has completed its acquisition of World Color Press and is scheduled to begin trading today on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol QUAD. The deal was first announced in January and the combination of the two companies creates North America's second largest printer with annual sales of approximately $4.8 billion.
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Lightning Source, PediaPress Team to Produce Custom Wiki Books
Lightning Source, Ingram Content Group's POD unit, has entered into an agreement with PediaPress, a web-to-print service that enables consumers to create customized books using the content in Wikipedia, the popular free online reference site. Lightning Source will provide POD book manufacturing and international distribution for the customized books created using PediaPress technology.
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Ingram Adds Windsor, Alarm, and Schilt
Ingram Publishers Services has added three new clients: Alarm Press LLC, Windsor Peak Press, and Schilt Publishing. Alarm focuses on arts and music titles, and also publishes Alarm magazine, a quarterly title featuring underground musicians of note. Windsor Peak is focused on parenting and wedding titles, and some of its bestsellers include Bridal Bargains, Expecting 411, and Baby Bargains. Schilt, which does high-end photography books, recently won the 2010 Best Photography Book of the Year for The Rape of a Nation, a documentary photography book about the Congo war.
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Distribution Moves: Getty Goes With UCP; Cursor With PGW
Getty Publications is moving its distribution to University of Chicago Press, after being distributed by Oxford University Press. Also on the distribution moves front, Richard Nash's start-up, Cursor, which is billed as a "community/imprint," will be distributed by PGW. The first imprint to launch from Cursor is called Red Lemonade and its first title is set to publish in Spring 2011, Some Day This Will Be Funny by Lynne Tillman.
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