Overseas Sourcing — China: A Limited Threat

Dick feels the best opportunities for growth from the Chinese point of view are those jobs requiring extensive hand labor in binding. He notes that most books planned months in advance won’t suffer from spending a month floating and railing its way to the final destination.

“There’s no evolution in plants, so a book about plants is not going to suffer” from being obsolete, Dick says. “The savings can be as much as half of what you would have to pay for similar books printed here in North America.”