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The Spy That PDF'd Me
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Rip-off 101: How Textbook Industry Manipulates Prices
The textbook publishing industry is coming under fire for exhorbitant prices and abusive practices. We take a look at recent commentary on the state of the industry, a new research report that documents the state of the problem with corrective recommendations, and some innovative students who are fighting back. [More...]
Terry Frazier at 7:15 PM
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Thursday, May 12, 2005
More Consolidation in Printing Industry
Big, big news in the printing industry...
Quebecor World To Sell Commercial Unit
(05/11/2005)Quebecor World announced yesterday that it intends to sell its North American commercial printing division, which operates 10 plants and generates revenues of $250 million.
The company says its financial performance was hampered by the unit. Quebecor World saw its Q1 profits chopped in half, reporting Q1 net income of $16.3 million compared to $35.8 million in Q1 2004.
"We have determined this business [the commercial group] to be non-core and are currently pursuing exclusive negotiations to sell this business and similar facilities in Canada," said Pierre Karl Peladeau, Quebecor World's president and CEO. The company also has started to move its short-run book printing offshore to attract publishers outsourcing work to Asia. Work and assets are moving to four of its plants Latin American.
QW is one of the big four North American printing companies and one of the strongest in magazine and book printing. The fact they could not make any money in commercial print here, and are moving their book work offshore says a lot about the state of this lagging industry, and the intense pressure starting to appear from AsiaPacific.
Terry Frazier at 4:00 PM
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Monday, April 4, 2005
The Spy That PDF'd Me
It was only a matter of time before all the structured, linked, DRM’d functions of the proprietary PDF format were tied back into a low-cost, low-burden, viral tracking mechanism. It seems likely PDFzone author is right to suggest this is just the beginning of a movement to make PDFs increasingly invasive. PDF is a great tool when used properly, but look for this to become a real issue and a battle cry for the anti-PDF crowd. Be interesting to see what, if anything, Adobe does with this.
Me? I dunno. I’m not sure I’d buy a PDF that required me to be connected to open it. Rather defeats the purpose, IMO. But it’s likely most sellers won’t disclose that little tidbit before the sale. Found via Privacy Digest. Read the whole thing at PDFzone.
PDF Tracking On the Way
PDF Tracking On the Way. (el)Capitan.Nick writes "PDFzone reports that the company Remote Approach has launched a service to track the movement of PDF documents with its tool Map-Bot. The purpose of this service is to allow PDF publishers the ability to measure their audience, as web publishers can already. Though personal information is not gathered from machines, IP addresses are. PDFs can require users to be connected to the Internet in order to read them, and every person you email the PDF to is subject to the service. As PDFzone's opinion article states, while 'the chances of running into a Remote Approach PDF right now -- and in the near future -- are pretty remote ... the potential for the technology to tarnish PDF's image [of security] is staggering.'" [Slashdot: Your Rights Online]
Terry Frazier at 2:30 PM
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