Wow – Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has suddenly found another communications medium and has decided to let his followers on his eponymous site know about it. This will not come as a shock to those of use involved in the publishing industry in one form or another, because his medium of choice has been around for a long time.
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ZUCKERBERG MAKES HIS “MARK” ON THE BOOK PRINTING INDUSTRY
Tuesday, 10 February 2015 | By Gerry Mulvaney
WHO SAYS EDUCATIONAL TEXTBOOKS ARE PASSÉ? DIGITAL PRINTERS – WATCH THIS SPACE!
Monday, 02 February 2015 | By Gerry Mulvaney
Nick Gibb, the United Kingdom Schools Minister, has called for a return to the use of text books in schools in a recent speech to an educational publishers conference in London. He claimed teachers in UK schools need to ditch their reliance on an “anti-textbook ethos” if UK schoolchildren are going to catch up with their counterparts overseas.
CATALOGS AND THE ‘NEO-TRADITIONAL’ RETAILER
Thursday, 29 January 2015 | By Louis Gordon
“The future of retailing is omnichannel and it includes catalogs,” asserts The Kurt Salmon Review*. In simplest terms, “omnichannel” retailing treats consumers to a uniform, integrated, seamless experience wherever they shop – in store, online, in print, or by phone.
REINVENTING IMAGING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Monday, 26 January 2015 | By Gerry Mulvaney
For today’s youngsters in the age of smartphones, the ability to take a photograph and see the result immediately is accepted as the norm, but it was not always the case.
LETTER TO JOHANNES GUTENBERG – ON THE ROBUST HEALTH OF THE PRINTING INDUSTRY
Monday, 19 January 2015 | By Gerry Mulvaney
Johannes Gutenberg Mainz, Germany Dear Johannes, |
Rehovot, Israel February 2014 |
When I wrote to you last year, I promised to keep you updated about how your business was going and about the development of Nanography® under the guidance of Benny Landa. Well the good news is that your printing business is actually growing in this digital age.
THE LANDA USER EXPERIENCE (UX) – DESIGN THAT WORKS
Thursday, 15 January 2015 | By Gerry Mulvaney
I learned how to run a Lithographic press with a Ryobi 3200 in the early 1970s. As user experiences go it was a fairly simple, albeit a frustrating one from an emotional point of view.
HOW CAN THE PRINTING INDUSTRY PARTICIPATE IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY REVOLUTION?
Monday, 05 January 2015 | By Gerry Mulvaney
January’s Economic Forum in Davos, where the world’s leaders from government, economics and business gather in Switzerland to share ideas and concerns, will apparently feature several sessions on what some are calling the next industrial revolution – the circular economy.
PACKAGING SHARES TREND UPWARDS. ANYONE FOR A SMALL BET ON BOXES?
Monday, 29 December 2014 | By Gerry Mulvaney
I must admit I am the last person in the world to rely on for financial advice and if you ever came to a Nottingham Forest football match with me and followed my example of betting on the final score you would be significantly out of pocket by the end of the season.