Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Amazon.com has issued an open letter to the POD industry responding to the groundswell of outrage that has greeted its plans to control its print-on-demand value chain. The letter gives the rationale behind the new policy and explains why it does not amount to a request for exclusivity. ...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 13th, 2008
Swedish minimalism has long been associated with spare, ash-blond furniture and space-age IKEA design, but a print ad appearing in Sweden’s Metro newspaper recently applies the creative concept to….McDonald’s Big ‘n’ Juicy Burger? According to Folio’s Josh Gordon, the double-page spread – printed on napkin paper - “uses almost no ...Thursday, February 21st, 2008
“Could the publishing industry get Napsterized?” Whether that’s food for thought or a tempest in a teapot depends upon your point of view. In a recent column for Newsweek magazine, Stephen Levy discusses the Atiz BookSnap, reportedly the first consumer device that enables the user to “release the content” of ...Friday, February 15th, 2008
Newsweek online this week has an amusing item about “Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks From the Wild Web,” a new book edited by Sarah Boxer, the first and now former web critic for the New York Times. Newsweek writer Brian Braiker asks, “‘W,’ you might ask, ‘TF’? To what end this dead-tree blogroll? ...Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Science Daily is reporting this week that researchers at Duke University have developed a method for printing finely detailed microscopic images with enzymes, rather than inks. Science Daily article The technology could become another tool in the arsenal of the high-security printing and brand protection industry: "With all the advances in ...Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Excerpted below is a Sept. 11 New York Times article that reports the latest plans for commercial development by Trinity Real Estate and Square Mile Capital Management of a vacant eight-story warehouse on Hudson Street, between Charlton and Vandam in Manhattan, once the beating heart of New York City's traditional ...
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