Book Partners’ parent company, The HF Group, is pleased to announce that it will be merging with Acme Bookbinding Company, based out of Charlestown, MA. We are very excited about the possibilities that the merging of these two family-owned business will bring about, and we look forward to developing new markets and products!
This is a wonderful ode to the book.
This is an interesting study that can be compared to another study that states that children prefer ebooks.
What are your thoughts? How soon, if ever, do you see this changing?
This is a great article on the current status and theoretical future of physical books.
Book Partners was recently utilized in a study conducted by InfoTrends titled “The Ever-Changing Book Landscape.” The author of the study analyzes how Book Partners has utilized Xerox equipment such as the Nuvera and the iGen4 to create a new business model and react to the changing publishing environment.
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Facetti was so inspired by Marber’s design that he also used it for Penguin’s fiction range, and would later apply it again, practically unchanged, to the blue Pelican books. Eventually Marber’s layout became the standard layout for the entire range of Penguin paperbacks.
(via The History of the ‘Marber Grid’ - The Book Design Blog)
Interesting tie-in to the iconic Penguin cover design.
(via warrenellis)
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Meet the Book Partners team! From left to right are:
Jim Heckman (VP & head of Book Partners)
Stephanie Straub (Customer Service)
Tim Malott (Sales)
Dave Mcintyre (Operator)
Jim Bischoff (Operator & Sales)
