SCREEN Americas announces its sponsorship of research recently conducted by the Book Manufacturers’ Institute, a non-profit trade association for the book manufacturing industry. The purpose of the research was to determine whether or not parents preferred print or electronic educational material for their children. The results were unequivocally in favor of print.
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The Book Manufacturers’ Institute assigned a third party to conduct a survey targeting 1,000 parents with children attending school at either the primary or secondary level or both. Recipients were asked questions that focused mostly on their child’s or children’s educational experience while attending school remotely during the past year and more specifically, whether or not electronic material had a more positive impact on an individual’s learning experience than printed material. The results were overwhelmingly supportive of the print product with 76 percent of parents finding print books e
Book Publishing and Production Trends for 2021 Credit: iStock.com by David Malan
Speakers:
Brian F. O Leary, Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group; Matt Baehr, Executive Director, Book Manufacturers’ Institute; Bill Clockel, Vice President of Sales, Integrated Books International
During this informative webinar we will take a deep dive into the key market trends that are expanding the book publishing market during these dynamic times. Trends in trade, new and back list, education, and short run vanity titles. We will also explore trends and innovations in book production and get powerful and unique real world insights from Books International.
Please join Brian F. O Leary, Executive Director at Book Industry Study Group, a U.S.-based trade association that works to create a more informed, effective, and efficient book industry supply chain. Brian oversees the work BISG does to disseminate information, create and implement standards and best pr
Despite all that 2020 heaped on the printing sector, the book manufacturing segment is going strong, driven by an isolated public renewing its connection to reading and, perhaps, by the multitudes of home-bound media experts frantically stocking their “credibility bookcases.” Book manufacturers are managing new ways of serving publishers and the broader market, and embracing new technology where it is advantageous.
The segment underwent a drastic shift during 2020, particularly with the divestiture of Quad/Graphics’ book plants from the segment, and the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of LSC Communications. These two developments effectively changed the playing field for U.S.-based book manufacturers, and left numerous book publishers scrambling for available capacity.