Books

New Year predictions - MPG Books Group's Tony Chard
Tony Chard, managing director, MPG Books Group

Taylor Bloxham prints cancer charity book
Taylor Bloxham has sponsored the publication of a book by Maggie's cancer centres featuring 12 stories and 144 individual artworks.

Sujille Colour Printers: A print firm in God's own country
The PrintWeek India team visits Sujilee in the picture-perfect town of Kollam (between Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi) and understands how the plant provides five-star service to buyers in the state

Bookonomics of India's exports
Indian book exports was Rs 1,600 cr in 2009-10. Noel D'cunha reports from the NBPC conference about how India needs to do a better job at winning hearts than the international counterparts

Random House awards paperback contract to Clays
CPI UK is understood to have lost up to half of its 14m-a-year Random House paperback book printing contract to rival Clays.

Butler Tanner & Dennis installs Technotrans cooling unit
Butler Tanner & Dennis has installed a Technotrans beta.c combination unit to cool down the company's Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 162 press.

St Ives acquires minority stake in Evolved e-book business
St Ives has continued its spending spree with the purchase of a 1.5m, 15.75% stake in Evolved Group, a developer of e-book conversion software for the publishing industry.

Nutech ups the ante with book factory in Faridabad
Nutech has created an ultra modern book manufacturing plant at Faridabad, Haryana. The inauguration ceremony was recently held at the Indian Habitat Centre which had over hundred guests that included...

"National Book Printer's Conference was a great success," says Anand Limaye of India Printing Works
"An initiative from Welbound, PrintWeek India and Henkel saw more than 330 delegates attend the 1st National Book Printers Conference in Trivandrum on 17 and 18 November 2011."

White Paper released at the Book Printer's Conference
More than 330 delegates from all over India attended the first National Book Printer's Conference (NBPC) in Thiruvananthapuram on 17 and 18 November.
Books industry "behind the times" with digital skills
The books industry is struggling with a digital skills lag and failing to fully exploit the surge in e-book sales, research by <i>The Bookseller</i> has found.

Manor Creative teams with Arctic to print charity book for British Armed Forces
Manor Creative has printed a poetry anthology that pays tribute to British servicemen and women and marks 10 years of British military operations in Afghanistan in aid of the Combat Stress charity.