TOP 30 BOOK MANUFACTURERS — CLIMBING THE STACKS

Tobin: Availability has gotten tight, and turn times have gotten longer. There has been capacity taken out. This has given us the opportunity to expand some of our paper programs and provide more paper for some of the publishers who have provided their own in the past. And, actually, there have been a lot of instances where publishers have been looking for alternate papers, both to save money and improve availability. They typically spec one particular type of paper, and they have been asking us to help them find various alternatives. It allows us to be more of a partner and provide them with more options.