Book Printing Outlook -- Consumer Confidence Key

For North Chelmsford, MA-based Courier Corp., 2008 posed a number of challenges in markets that had exhibited strength in recent years. Peter Tobin, vice president, says the company saw unexpected softening in the usually solid elementary-high school (el-hi) market, as publishers hedged on orders due to school districts finding themselves under intense budget pressures. The generally busy season of late spring leading into summer was “quieter than expected.”