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Grabbing the Bull of change by the Horns
I have just returned from the Publishing Business Conference & Expo in New York ( full coverage begins on page 10 ) and couldn’t help but feel that this year, more than ever, there was a sense of camaraderie, a message of “We can...

Accumulating Efficiency
So your organization has flirted with or even implemented Enterprise Resource Planning, Lean Manufacturing, Kanban, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Taguchi, Feng Shui, and a host of other quality and productivity initiatives....

What's So Hot About Hachette?
"I think publishing is the greatest team sport invented," says David Young, chairman and CEO of Hachette Book Group (HBG). "We work hard to have fun and celebrate success, and deal with problems as a team. That's what we try [to]...

The Best Book Companies to Work For
The "Best Book Publishing Companies to Work For" list is Book Business ' annual ranking of companies that seem to embody the philosophy that a company's employees are the key to its success. But being a great company isn't just about...

How the Best Companies Were Selected
The "Best Book Publishing Companies to Work For" is a project conducted by Book Business in conjunction with the Best Companies Group, an independent research firm that specializes in finding and recognizing great places to work. The...

Why do They Love Going to Work?
To me, this is one of the most exciting issues we publish all year. It takes a good look at the crème de la crème of places to work in book publishing on our annual list of "Best Book Publishing Companies to Work For" (page 10). The...

Of Androids and E-books
After a year of anticipation and rumor, the recent unveiling of the ‘Android' was decidedly anticlimactic. The launch of the first product running Google's open-source Android mobile operating system, a device manufactured by HTC of Taiwan...

It's All in the Packaging
Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Press (DUP) is hoping to reverse the trend of declining hardcover-book sales to libraries by offering those libraries its full list—approximately 100 new scholarly titles per year and a backlist of over 900...

Fast Stats
299,112 Number of people who attended the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair, a 5.6-percent increase from last year. The attendance number also set a record since the fair moved to five days from six in 2004. Source: Frankfurt Book Fair 40% Percentage...

Fast Stats
76,000 The number of copies of “Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska’s Political Establishment Upside Down,” by Kaylene Johnson—the only biography of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin—regional publisher Epicenter Press...

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