So the value of print is higher than we might have thought! The world’s most expensive printed book was sold at Southeby’s this week; The Birds of America went for a-touch-out-of-our-reach £7.3 million. I hope that the buyer realised that it had been hand coloured!Talking of cash, stories emerged this week of currency and specialist security printer De La Rue being pursued by the French. Perhaps it’s because they sound French anyway?!
CS Labels, the Willenhall based label printer, announced the installation of its fourth Xeikon digital label press, a Xeikon 3030. The unit represents the company’s fourth Xeikon purchase in four years. Check out the detail to see how Xeikon equipment is helping this company to win work back from China!Further to last week’s news regarding Wave2 and Newsquest (London) and a self-service advertisement product, plenty of media coverage has been forthcoming, including: IFRA, News Media (Production Journal’s web site), PrintSpeak.co.uk, and InPublishing.
Printers should certainly take a look at this highly amusing video regarding colour issues. You will have been there at some point I am sure! However, as ink prices from two of the big players continue to rise, you might have to be ever more careful in getting the colour right!Good news: KPMG came up with some survey results this week saying that four out of five consumers preferred to be reading the real printed thing rather than reading a screen.
It’s December and so it must be time for the “Top 10” list to be unleashed. Whilst GenesisNews dusted off the first of its “Best of” releases this week, we were not alone! The chaps at Lifehacker were looking for votes this week for their best “Top 10”. These are released weekly and consist of tips and tricks on a variety of topics. The listing for you to vote from consisted of 20 of their favourite “Top 10’s”, equally some 200 top tips! One “Top 10” that wouldn’t have existed last year is that for iPad apps. Both that and iPhone apps were posted by the team at Mashable this week.On the subject of apps, readers might like to be aware of an interesting iPad newspaper based product entitled Extra! Extra! The currently free application (well, it was last weekend!) allows users to view and read the actual front pages of a huge number of newspaper from across the world. There are a lot of American papers; not many UK one’s; but a reasonable sprinkling of product from across the world. Images can be zoomed for easier reading, but new papers don’t seem to arrive until about mid-day UK time.
In more app talk, Future publishing is set to launch no less than eleven titles in iPad format, whilst Mr Murdoch is slowing down a bit, with the launch of The Daily iPad newspaper now being put back to “first quarter, 2011”. End of March then.Tablet talk this week focuses on the predications for this fledging market, which have begun to appear across the internet media this week. Mashable picks up the forecast that sales will quadruple by 2012, whilst a slightly more focused report on US sales suggests that the country will see a 70% overall increase in tablet sales by that year. Whichever way you look at it, that’s a lot of tablets!
And talking about a lot of tablets, Samsung is back again with the Gloria, a 10-inch tablet with slide out keyboard. Still only at the rumour stage, the product could be equipped with a Windows 7 operating system. It’s a very unconfirmed rumour at this stage, but we think that the format could have something going for it!
The long awaited Google Chrome OS has finally arrived this week. Not had enough time to check it out, so take a look at what these folk say, and do get back to us if you have given it a try! In a busy week, the big G also managed to get its E-bookstore going in the US, Google Docs all working nicely on the iPad, and it announced the launch of its Nexus S Android-based smart phone!
This week we have got a whole bunch of little “go see” links, without loads of intro. Take a look and let us know what you think at PIND.editor@gmail.com Firstly, there is a new method of film distribution, via kiosk and thumb drive (USB drive); Apple is rumoured to be launching in Mac App store on Monday, December 13th; iPad 2 is coming with two camera’s allegedly; Mashable offers you nine web tools to keep businesses running over the holidays; real time Facebook newspaper PostPost launches.Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in next week’s PIND 35. Details of new stories will be added here as the week progresses!
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