PI 400 -- Books - Judging a Book

"Online shopping has been great for our industry," adds Tobin of Courier. He notes that it has been especially beneficial for small- to mid-sized publishers, which can keep lesser-known titles in print longer.

To offset the difficulties facing the book market, printers are continuing to invest in new equipment and technology to provide better service to their customers. R.R. Donnelley, for example, has just completed the implementation of a new prepress solution that uses the Portable Document Format (PDF) as the standard file format for digital prepress processes across its entire book manufacturing platform.