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Rip-off 101: How Textbook Industry Manipulates Prices
More Consolidation in Printing Industry
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Robotic Book Scanner for High-Volume Digital Conversion
This is very cool a non-destructive robotic scanner for books. The video of this thing at work is nice. [via Tim Oren]
Bookbots
Maybe not as world shaking as milbots or healthbots, but if you're Google or Amazon, or possessed of a very large dead tree library, you'll want Kirtas Technologies' Bookscan (check out the video). If you've ever had to get legacy printed material into a scanning or OCR system, hands-on or just paying the bills, you'll appreciate it. Gadgets like this as well as the search engines' book indexing projects will slowly break down the "Internet Event Horizon" that's made a lot of information created before the mid-1990s invisible to the net.
Terry Frazier at 1:08 PM
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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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