Book Printing--Passing Grade

Phoenix Color, of Hagerstown, MD, enjoyed its strongest third quarter ever this year, despite softness in trade publishing for the industry at large, according to Dion von der Lieth, senior vice president of sales and marketing.

"For the most part, our growth has been by capturing market share," von der Lieth notes. "In hard cover, the market's kind of flat, but soft cover is up slightly. There are fewer titles published today by the major publishers. You never know what's going to happen—it's difficult to project."