Welcome to Printing Industry News Digest (PIND) issue 125, 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. Click the pics too! Extra links are hidden behind the images below.
The Daily dies: the digital newspaper solution from News Corp
has shut its doors after some 19 months. Whilst the US iPad
subscription only publication was highly regarded by commentators, and briefly topped the paid-for iPad app charts, the numbers just didn’t add up.
Elsewhere in newspaper land, the New York Times is to downsize its newsroom as ad revenues fall; Trinity Mirror has unveiled its tablet strategy causing an increase in the share price; the Washington Post is now considering the paywall as the appropriate solution to its woes; and The Times, meanwhile, is offering up cheap Nexus tablets to new subscribers. Perhaps 2013 will shed new light for newspapers and a realistic monetising solution.
We hope The Dandy fares better than The Daily in digital land. The final printed edition of Britain’s favourite comic rolled off the press this week. The 75-year-old publications print run had dropped to 8,000 copies per week from a peak of 2 million.
The current hot topic of adding bespoke data via inkjet to a standard litho print is in focus at German publisher / printer Axel Springer as it integrates Kodak’s Prosper technology with manroland web systems equipment. A Colorman press was the first, providing unique lottery number information. The rest of the group will now be equipped, according to PrintWeek.
Meanwhile, it appears that the patent sale is back on at Kodak. Bloomberg advises us that the Apple and Google are teaming up for a $500 million-plus bid. Should provide some aid to Kodak’s bank account!
Are printers bad at marketing and weak at selling by anything other than price? Print Monthly offers some thoughts on both topics that are well worth a read – especially if you run a printing business!
With a focus on 3D printing, Gigaom introduces us to a PDF from the guys at Frog Design that offers 20 Tech Trends for 2013. Is 3D printing going to take over for regular printing companies?
Our friends at Mashable ask can e-books and libraries co-exist. Thoughts from others on this topic, including the Guardian and Surrey County Council.
Three new Surface
tablets from Microsoft are set to arrive next year. The BBC’s Click
programme [UK readers only] provides some comparisons of the latest tablet offerings from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
What should you do to a computer before you sell or dispose of it? Lifehacker’s article this week is supported by the thoughts of others regarding cleaning or even completely destroying the hard drive.
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.
PIND125
Missed Issue 124, including Océ inkjet? Then simply click here!
Issue 123: manroland web systems
Issue 122: manroland sheetfed update
Issue 121: Useful packaging
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
The Daily dies: the digital newspaper solution from News Corp
has shut its doors after some 19 months. Whilst the US iPad
subscription only publication was highly regarded by commentators, and briefly topped the paid-for iPad app charts, the numbers just didn’t add up.Elsewhere in newspaper land, the New York Times is to downsize its newsroom as ad revenues fall; Trinity Mirror has unveiled its tablet strategy causing an increase in the share price; the Washington Post is now considering the paywall as the appropriate solution to its woes; and The Times, meanwhile, is offering up cheap Nexus tablets to new subscribers. Perhaps 2013 will shed new light for newspapers and a realistic monetising solution.
We hope The Dandy fares better than The Daily in digital land. The final printed edition of Britain’s favourite comic rolled off the press this week. The 75-year-old publications print run had dropped to 8,000 copies per week from a peak of 2 million.The current hot topic of adding bespoke data via inkjet to a standard litho print is in focus at German publisher / printer Axel Springer as it integrates Kodak’s Prosper technology with manroland web systems equipment. A Colorman press was the first, providing unique lottery number information. The rest of the group will now be equipped, according to PrintWeek.
Meanwhile, it appears that the patent sale is back on at Kodak. Bloomberg advises us that the Apple and Google are teaming up for a $500 million-plus bid. Should provide some aid to Kodak’s bank account!Are printers bad at marketing and weak at selling by anything other than price? Print Monthly offers some thoughts on both topics that are well worth a read – especially if you run a printing business!
With a focus on 3D printing, Gigaom introduces us to a PDF from the guys at Frog Design that offers 20 Tech Trends for 2013. Is 3D printing going to take over for regular printing companies?Our friends at Mashable ask can e-books and libraries co-exist. Thoughts from others on this topic, including the Guardian and Surrey County Council.
Three new Surface
tablets from Microsoft are set to arrive next year. The BBC’s Click
programme [UK readers only] provides some comparisons of the latest tablet offerings from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.What should you do to a computer before you sell or dispose of it? Lifehacker’s article this week is supported by the thoughts of others regarding cleaning or even completely destroying the hard drive.
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.
PIND125
Missed Issue 124, including Océ inkjet? Then simply click here!
Issue 123: manroland web systems
Issue 122: manroland sheetfed update
Issue 121: Useful packaging
Get your Tech & Comms updates direct from the blog, use the RSS feed, or keep updated via Twitter.
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