Monday, March 31st, 2008
John McIntyre, assistant managing editor for the copy desk at the Baltimore Sun on newspapers and the internet: The newspaper industry has spent untold sums for the past 30 years and more to develop the technology of printing high-quality color photography on newsprint. As an ambition, it ranks with an attempt ...Monday, March 31st, 2008
The Globe and Mail's ReportonBusiness.com is reporting Quebecor World Inc parent Quebecor Inc is considering printing agreements with rivals of Quebecor World to provide printing for some its magazine titles. The ReportonBusiness.com cites a a Quebecor spokesman Luc Lavoie saying, "Publications TVA is assessing the possibility of letting a minority percentage ...Monday, March 31st, 2008
Patrick Henry's comment to Jean-Marie Hershey's blog post on Amazon.com's BookSurge unit move to shutout competing print on-demand companies by disabling the ability for "POD publishers" to directly sell books in the Amazon.com store has been spot on so far. Henry stated, "Amazon’s decision ought to provoke a reaction as ...Monday, March 31st, 2008
Richard Dannenberg, owner of the AlphaGraphics in Macon, Georgia wrote a blog post yesterday on the diminishing variety of papers offered by paper manufactures and distributors. Dannenberg recalls an order from a customer who wanted to use “Old Money,” a line of stationery, made from recycled U.S. dollar bills produced by ...Friday, March 28th, 2008
Globe and Mail's ReportonBusiness.com reports that Toronto-based Canadian Tire is ceasing use of printed catalogs and moving online: Canadian Tire Corp. is quietly phasing out the printed edition of the catalogue it has been publishing twice a year for almost nine decades, with a whopping current print run of 6 million ...Friday, March 28th, 2008
In a move that rocked the POD publishing industry this week, Amazon apparently is insisting that POD publishers that want to have their books sold directly on the Amazon website will have to use Amazon’s own on-demand printing facilities (BookSurge) or else have the “buy” buttons for their publications ...Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Adobe has released its Photoshop Express as a public beta. Adobe Photoshop Express is a Rich Internet Application (RIA) allowing the software to deployed over the internet to anyone who wants to "store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects." Photoshop Express is free to use and each account ...Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Podcasts from the Business of Green Media Conference held at the end of January at Cal Poly are now available online. The one day conference hosted by the Graphic Communication Institute of Cal Poly and SustainCommWorld focused on what the graphic communication industry is doing and can do to take ...Thursday, March 27th, 2008
“Green” certification is turning into alphabet soup and we’re all getting lost in the acronyms! Confusion is swirling around not only the SGP guidelines, but also FSC and SFI certification. What does this all mean? Should my company consider one or all of these certifications? Let’s do a quick comparison of ...Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
American Business Media reports that some B2B magazines showed growth in 2007: At first glance, the year-end numbers for 2007 appear to show a slight decline (-2.0%). However when the numbers are examined more closely, in fact, 13 of the 21 Business Information Network (BIN) categories are showing growth. The greatest growth ...
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