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VistaPrint Execs See Pay Increases

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Boston Business Journal is reporting senior executives at VistaPrint are scheduled to receive generous pay increases, bonuses and perks even though the company's stock has dropped 27 percent in the last year: The brunt of the salary bumps was mostly reserved for the company's top lieutenants. For example, CEO Robert Kean ...

A Perfect Storm for Print Media?

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Steve Rubel public relations executive at Edelman and blogger wonders if we are living in a perfect storm for print media. Steve points to three factors at work that indicate we are: rising fuels costs and distribution of print; consumer awareness of their environmental impact when consuming media; and popularity ...

Kodak’s Perez Remembers Our ‘Founding Printers’

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Kodak's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Antonio Perez penned an opinion article for today's USA Today reminding us not to forget our founding printers: John Dunlap of Philadelphia and Mary Katherine Goddard of Baltimore. The two are responsible for printing the first copies of the Declaration of Independence. In his ...

Keeping an Eye on Postal Rates

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

American Business Media had a short brief in their latest E-news update on future postal rate increases: Under the postal reform law passed in 2006, the Postal Service is entitled to increase its average rates by class annually by a percentage equal to the prior year's CPI increase. Given its precarious ...

Making Print Pubs a Vital Part of Web 2.0

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Dan Pacheco, senior manager of digital products at The Bakersfield Californian wrote a blog post over at PBS' MediaShift Idea Lab blog about the newspaper's success in building profitable print media products around its Web products. Despite all of my futuristic ramblings about the virtues of social networks, our niche print ...

Bob’s Drupa Journey

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Bob Neubauer editor of In-Plant Graphics Magazine has posted a two part series on his drupa 2008 Journey: Bob's Drupa Journey: Part 1 Bob's Drupa Journey: Part 2

Motorola and Kodak Partner to Roll Out New Mobile Phones with 5MP Camera

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Motorola and Kodak have announced the MOTOZINE ZN5 mobile phone that combines technology developed by both companies. According to the release: The MOTOZINE ZN5 combines a high-quality phone and camera experience to help content-craving consumers seize inspiration and share the content they create and love with the world. Unveiled today in ...

Online Publisher Drives Growth with Print Advertising

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Entrepreneur.com has the story of Jim Daniels owner of Rhode Island-based JDD Publishing. Daniels' company publishes Internet marketing books, services and software via the Internet. Not satisfied with the return electronic advertising was bringing, Daniels set out to use his database of leads and customers to create a direct marketing ...

HP Restructuring Imaging & Printing Group

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Jim Lyons points to a IdahoStatesman.com article on HP's plans to "streamline" it's Imaging & Printing Group. The Idaho Statesman article says HP "will shrink its worldwide Imaging & Printing Group from five to three global business units." The article says the restructuring is a cost-cutting measure. The Associated Press says the ...

Dr. Joe’s Summer Reading List

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Here's the Summer Reading List from Dr. Joe’s Q3 Economic Outlook Webinar held earlier today. Morgan Stanley Internet Trends just published 6/12/2008; great stuff about social networking, new gadgets Amazon Kindle – As big as the iPod? Look at the Kindle on amazon.com Why is it called the ...