Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 120, providing a
summary of major news items from the printing, publishing, packaging,
digital, and communications technology sectors. PIND incorporates brief
summaries and links to the week’s key news stories so that you can look
up that all important detail, digging deeper behind the headline.
The world of publishing this week saw the creation of Random Penguin
following the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. The Guardian
views the move from various perspectives. It ends up questioning the innovative capabilities of British publishers, with a German company, once just a quarter of its size, now owns Penguin.
Further to the recent problems at contract printer Newsfax, PrintWeek suggests that this is unlikely to be the last casualty in the newspaper sector. Meanwhile, manroland web systems has announced a new MD to take over the reins of the premier newspaper press provider.
Something that I think we might have missed from earlier October: the Guardian offered ten ways to save the publishing industry.
Remiss of us not to pass on these oh-so-valuable tips . . . Nothing
thunder and lightening here, but actually a good collection that
summarises the current situation well.
In the world of printing kit, the owners of Presstek managed to offload the business at last – just two days before it was to be de-listed on the Nasdaq. The $0.50 cents per share was not pleasing to some, but objections, we are told, have been overcome and agreements reached. Oddly, the new owners appear to cite their current ownership of Mark Andy label presses as an area of potential synergies? We can see few!
Further to previous Kodak news, latest results provide an increase in net loss
to $312m (£193m) in the third quarter, moving to $977m for the nine
months to 30 September, with net sales falling 19% over the same
periods, to $1bn and $3bn respectively. Pre-tax losses from continuing
operations continue to rise. Pretty pictures are getting harder to
paint.
GMail users might well have noted an updated user interface that now provides a floating window in which to create you new mail.
Following on from last week’s in-depth tablet talk, there is both iPad Mini and Nexus 10 reviews to take a peek at this week. Oprah Winfrey, in the meantime, comes out in favour of Surface!
Nice message from Dropbox received on Friday: they wanted to illustrate the further potential of the cloud by promoting six third-party iOS apps that interface with Dropbox as a document repository. The apps include CloudOn, which enables Office document editing on the go, and Paperless, a list-based solution. Meanwhile, future gazing says that we will be wearing our computers more and more!
Keep your finger on the pulse: grab an RSS feed of PIND (copy this link into your feed reader); click here for the GenesisNews #Print Daily to get the latest daily stories; or click here for regular Tech & Comms updates in blog or RSS form. You can also connect to a free subscription of the Print Daily for an update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology delivered straight to your in-box every day! For details on Genesis Marketing – publishers of PIND – click here.
PIND120
Missed Issue 119, including iPad Mini and Windows 8? Then simply click here!
Issue 118: A bad week for print
Issue 117: Seven-inch tablets
Issue 116: August shows
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
The world of publishing this week saw the creation of Random Penguin
following the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. The Guardian
views the move from various perspectives. It ends up questioning the innovative capabilities of British publishers, with a German company, once just a quarter of its size, now owns Penguin.Further to the recent problems at contract printer Newsfax, PrintWeek suggests that this is unlikely to be the last casualty in the newspaper sector. Meanwhile, manroland web systems has announced a new MD to take over the reins of the premier newspaper press provider.
Something that I think we might have missed from earlier October: the Guardian offered ten ways to save the publishing industry.
Remiss of us not to pass on these oh-so-valuable tips . . . Nothing
thunder and lightening here, but actually a good collection that
summarises the current situation well.In the world of printing kit, the owners of Presstek managed to offload the business at last – just two days before it was to be de-listed on the Nasdaq. The $0.50 cents per share was not pleasing to some, but objections, we are told, have been overcome and agreements reached. Oddly, the new owners appear to cite their current ownership of Mark Andy label presses as an area of potential synergies? We can see few!
Further to previous Kodak news, latest results provide an increase in net loss
to $312m (£193m) in the third quarter, moving to $977m for the nine
months to 30 September, with net sales falling 19% over the same
periods, to $1bn and $3bn respectively. Pre-tax losses from continuing
operations continue to rise. Pretty pictures are getting harder to
paint.GMail users might well have noted an updated user interface that now provides a floating window in which to create you new mail.
Following on from last week’s in-depth tablet talk, there is both iPad Mini and Nexus 10 reviews to take a peek at this week. Oprah Winfrey, in the meantime, comes out in favour of Surface!Nice message from Dropbox received on Friday: they wanted to illustrate the further potential of the cloud by promoting six third-party iOS apps that interface with Dropbox as a document repository. The apps include CloudOn, which enables Office document editing on the go, and Paperless, a list-based solution. Meanwhile, future gazing says that we will be wearing our computers more and more!
Keep your finger on the pulse: grab an RSS feed of PIND (copy this link into your feed reader); click here for the GenesisNews #Print Daily to get the latest daily stories; or click here for regular Tech & Comms updates in blog or RSS form. You can also connect to a free subscription of the Print Daily for an update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology delivered straight to your in-box every day! For details on Genesis Marketing – publishers of PIND – click here.
PIND120
Missed Issue 119, including iPad Mini and Windows 8? Then simply click here!
Issue 118: A bad week for print
Issue 117: Seven-inch tablets
Issue 116: August shows
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
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