Monday, March 12th, 2007
For someone who reads SEC filings for fun, the February 2 Schedule 14a (proxy statement) filed by Cadmus Communications Corp. was particularly interesting. The best part of filings like this is the "Background of the Merger" where we - the public - get to peak behind closed doors to find ...Friday, March 9th, 2007
In the March 7th issue of the Seattle Post Intelligencer (the PI to those of us who live in Seattle), Cecelia Goodnow's article "Teens buying books at fastest rate in decades" gave new hope that the book publishing is on its way up again. Encouraging piece... And remember, Harry Potter #7 ...Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Shades of the dot com run-up! I haven't heard such great marketing-speak since the spring of 2000! The folks at X-rite have out lingo-ed the best of them... Yesterday, the Michigan-based company announced their Q4 and year end results for 2006. X-rite appears to show improvement pretty much across the board ...Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Business process outsourcing (BPO) is serious business, see today's article on WhatTheyThink.com (Print Brokering, Print Management, Business Process Outsourcing - What's the Difference? - Subscription required). However, BPO can be applied to any number of functions (processes); for example, the process of acquiring a birthday cake for a child. So ...Monday, February 26th, 2007
We're coming down to the wire on the rate increases from the latest postal rate case. The Postal Rate Commission handed down their recommendations for rates today. See DMNews for the announcement. The total requested rate increase is not as high as some feared; however the actual burden of cost ...Friday, February 16th, 2007
For those of you who know Don Goldman - whether his work at Prism USA, Master Graphics, CAPVentures, or NAPL, or as a speaker and consultant - you know that he has a heart of gold. At the end of January, Don returned from a two week trip to Senegal, West ...Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Yesterday, Polymer Vision announced that the Readius - an electronic reader about the size of a cell phone - will go on the market this month. Telecom Italia and Polymer Vision will jointly develop and market the device. The production facility is in the UK. Dr. Joe - as usual ...Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes." Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536) While I don't own a bookstore, my husband and I have a house full of books and I love them all. And when we travel, we ...Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
The second Dscoop conference - held this past weekend at Saddlebrook Resort outside Tampa FL - drew more than 700 participants (see Barb Pellow's coverage of the conference). While I was there, I stopped a few folks to ask what they were getting from their attendance at the event. ...Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
User conferences come in all sizes; from Xplor - probably the grand-daddy of them all - which started out years ago as a Xerox user group, EFI's Connect, XMPie's new user group, and DICE, re-named from ICE (Indigo Customer Exchange) to Digital Imaging Customer Exchage. This week, I am ...
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