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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Those struggling to keep up with the issues and terminology of sustainable printing will find much of the information they’re seeking in Handbook on Book Paper and the Environment, a recent report from the Paper Issues Working Group of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The 61-page document is the ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Mike Shatzkin at Publishers Weekly forecasts what to expect in publishing in 2008. Two that stood out:
5. Christmas 2008 will be the first one in which sales of customized books, enabled by the Internet and print-on-demand, will become substantial. Make-your-own books have been creeping into public consciousness for a ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Scott Karp, Editor & Publisher of Publishing 2.0 has written an analysis of the future of print publishing and paid content:
Print is dead and all content wants to be free — two bogeymen of the digital age, with some edge of truth, but based on current visibility, still unlikely at ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
As the leader of a publishing group comprising 19 magazines with nearly 200 international editions in more than 100 countries, Cathie Black clearly believes in the durability of print. At a New York University awards ceremony in her honor last week (Nov. 14), she predicted that for the next ten ...
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
I have to confess. I used to be a complete magazine junky. They would flood my house every month and while my wife would be happily reading some big thick book full of text, I'd be combing through page after glorious glossy page. I whittled down over the years ...
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Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
RALEIGH, N.C., May 24 -- Looking for complete control of your literary destiny? Lulu.com, the largest online marketplace that provides a platform to create, buy and sell digital content on demand, is taking author empowerment to the next level with an unprecedented partnership with R.R. Bowker, the US ISBN agency ...
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