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Archive for September, 2009

Students at Princeton Pilot Kindle in the Classroom

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

In partnership with Amazon.com, Princeton has been conducting a pilot program to put Kindle's in the classroom as part of a sustainability initiative to conserve paper. Yesterday the Daily Princetonian reported, Kindles yet to woo University users: But though they acknowledged some benefits of the new technology, many students and faculty ...

RR Donnelley Terminates Contract With “Significant Customer”

Monday, September 28th, 2009

In a SEC 8-K filing on Friday, RR Donnelley stated it has agreed to end its contractual relationship with a significant customer: On September 24, 2009, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company (the "Company") entered into a termination agreement (the "Termination Agreement") with a significant customer pursuant to which the parties ...

Xerox’s “Game Changing” ACS Acquisition

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Today, Xerox announced its intended acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) for $6.4 billion in a combined cash and stock deal. Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, described this acquisition as “game changing.” She positioned it as different from some of the earlier services acquisitions by IBM, Perot Systems by Dell ...

The State of Printing Associations

Friday, September 25th, 2009

As Print 09 was wrapping up, Michael Makin, President & CEO at Printing Industries of America sent out a memo to members about a consolidation proposal it had made to NAPL: Recently, with the full blessing of the national board of directors of Printing Industries of America, Chairman Ken Kaufman formally ...

Are Legacy Media Going the Way of the 8-Track

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

There was an interesting panel of media executives this week titled “Are Legacy Media Going the Way of the 8-Track” These panels serve many purposes and are a necessary but sometimes  tedious step in our transformation from what we were to what we will become.  It is very hard when you are in the trenches ...

Start marketing yourself – you do it for everybody else!

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Printers are notorious when it comes to marketing themselves to current and prospective customers. Why is that? I don’t get it! One of my previous employers had a brochure that was designed and printed five years ago. And let’s not talk about the website… outdated information, inaccurate capabilities list, images ...

Inching Closer to a Ubiquitous Electronic Reading Platform

Friday, September 18th, 2009

In the last few weeks, I have published several articles in my daily newsletter about the increased use of innovative technologies and the synergies between printed magazines and digital tag-along inserts. There have been stories of including real video advertising in a printed newsstand magazine, 3D advertising combining a ...