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The publishing industry has undergone major changes and witnessed a number of developments in the past few years. This particular section gives you a download on all the industry news and happenings.

 

Frankfurt Book Fair – 15-19 October 2008...

September 04, 2008

The “Organizing Committee Frankfurt Book Fair 2008 -- Guest of Honour Turkey” presented its Book Fair and cultural events program on 12 June 2008. The Guest of Honour program “Turkey in all its colours” features nearly...

London Book Fair announces India as market focus for 2009 event...

September 04, 2008

The London Book Fair and British Council have announced that India will be the Market Focus country in 2009, and South Africa in 2010. This follows from...

The Ifra India events in Goa 16 to 18 September 20...

Aug 22, 2008

Keynote address by Dipak Jain at IFRA India’s first ever ‘CEO – Publishers Conclave   The CEO-Publishers Conclave will take place on 16 and 17 September 2008 with an opening keynote address by...

Kasturi & Sons order fourth DiamondSpirit press li...

Aug 22, 2008

In a press release datelined Hiroshima on August 19, 2008, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Paper & Printing Machinery Division today announced the sale of another DiamondSpirit 4 x 1 double-width,...

WIFAG signs up NBG Machinery for Indian sales...

Aug 13, 2008

On 12 August 2008, WIFAG has announced that it has reached an agreement with NBG to collaborate as intermediary of WIFAG for double width newspaper presses in the India territory. WIFAG is a hundred...

Sixteenth IFRA India conference to focus on Newspa...

Aug 02, 2008

Chennai, July 22, 2008 -- IFRA India 2008, the sixteenth annual conference of IFRA in India will be held at the Marriott Resort Goa, on September 17 and 18. This is the first IFRA India conference...

Goss announces first order for new M-600 Folia...

July 30, 2008

Press with innovative sheeting technology to be installed by high-quality sheetfed printer in France. Order follows impressive product demonstrations at drupa...

School textbook printing - The view from Mathura...

July 29, 2008

Mathura, in Uttar Pradesh, with an area of 3,800 square kilometres and a population of 300,000, is strategically located 145 km southeast of Delhi and 58 km northwest of Agra. With arterial road...

High speed newspaper web offset presses - Where ar...

July 29, 2008

At drupa08 we met with several large web offset manufacturers, and taking a risk, we brought up the subject of their survival in their present configuration. Not surprisingly with North American...

Hindi and English dailies - Looking at their content

July 29, 2008

We conducted a small exercise by looking at the content of fourteen morning dailies (eight in Hindi and six in English) that were available in Noida on 19 June and 5 July 2008. The Hindi dailies were ...

The Business Daily boom in the country...

July 24, 2008

The number of new launches in the business-daily domain is increasing everyday. The most recent news is that Network 18 will launch a business newspaper with the UK’s Financial Times, possibly by earl...

Pathways to green publishing seminar in Delhi...

July 24, 2008

As we wrote in our editorial in April, Teri organized a seminar for stakeholders in the publishing and printing industries to discuss the sustainability issues. It seems that the seminar was instigate...

Editorial

July 21, 2008

There is talk in both the print and electronic media about inflation and industrial slowdown in the Indian economy. At the same time the BSE stock market index has tumbled from its January above 20,000 high..

Goss at drupa08

July 11, 2008

Goss demonstrated a new product at drupa08 that is as interesting for commercial printers as its M-600 and M-500 heatset web offset presses. This was the M-600 Folia in a coldset configuration with a ...

Cape Town Book Fair 2008 - International Publish...

July 08, 2008

The International Publishers Association's Publishers Congress will beheld in Africa for the first time ever in 2012. The announcement thatCape Town and the Western Cape won the bid to host this pres...

The inkjet Drupa or not?...

July 08, 2008

By all accounts, Drupa 2008 was a more successful show than manyexpected which augurs well for the future of print. Due to itsinfluence, plus the fact that it is only held every four years,...

drupa trots out newspaper presses, software upgrades

July 04, 2008

DUSSELDORF, Germany — Newspaper suppliers unveiled a host of new technologies and services at this year’s drupa, ranging from registration control systems to new presses. Newspapers & Technology,...

Adobe unveils Acrobat 9 software

June 25, 2008

Adobe has introduced Acrobat 9 software, an upgrade that will transform the process of creating and sharing electronic documents. Acrobat 9 delivers native support for Adobe Flash technology, the ability to ...

Quark announces XPress 8

June 25, 2008

A new version of Quark’s XPress layout program was announced on the first day of the Drupa printing exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany. XPress 8 builds ...

Large orders for Krause from Bhaskar Group and Bennett Coleman

June 25, 2008

After its investment in 25 KBA Prisma 4 x 1 printing towers, the Bhaskar Group has also added thirteen Krause LS Jet CtP lines to its shopping cart. Several years ago when the Bhaskar-Zee Television combine...

Nampa daily taps MDGM in preparation to print rival Boise Statesman

June 25, 2008

The (Nampa) Idaho Press-Tribune is bolstering its Manugraph DGM Inc. pressline with two MDGM colour towers and a folder as it prepares to print The (Boise) Idaho Statesman under terms of an agreement...

Intercontinental marriages

June 18, 2008

The combined Manugraph DGM is at drupa for the first time. This time the stand contains products from the factories in both the US and India although there is no live demonstration....

Outlook group and Gruner + Jahr launch GeoIndia on 2 June 2008

June 18, 2008

At a cover price of Rs 100, GEO is positioned in the upscale segment of the Indian magazine market. GeoIndia, is the magazines first English language version....

Cape Town Book Fair 14 to 17 June 2008

June 03, 2008

Usha Diaries, Thompson Press, Rakesh Press, Rave India Pvt Ltd, Repro India Pvt Ltd, Pustak Mahal, Sterling Publishers also to exhibit...

DNA and Dainik Bhaskar order four IDAB WAMAC mailroom systems

May 16, 2008

The DB Group companies Diligent Media Corporation and DB Corp Ltd in Mumbai, India, have placed a major mailroom order with IDAB WAMAC International AB, the newspaper specialist within...

NELA acquires M&A Pass-System GmbH

May 06, 2008

Lahr/Schwarzwald, Burscheid/Köln. On 30 April 2007, with an ‘Asset Deal’, NELA Brüder Neumeister GmbH acquired M&A Pass-System GmbH. Both companies are...

Newsprint price rise hits five-year high in China

May 06, 2008

Xinhua reported on 3 April 2008, that driven by rising global paper pulp prices, Chinese newsprint has hit nearly 5,500 yuan (US$ 783.5 and Rs. 31,371) a ton, up 20 per cent from...

Startups and new dailies and editions

May 03, 2008

After being built up for more than eighteen months, Jagati Publication’s Sakshi started up on March 24 with 23 editions and 1.2 million copies. After several decades Ramoji Rao’s...

The newsprint price rise and Indian newspapers

April 29, 2008

For the last fifteen years the unbridled expansion of the Indian newspaper industry has been fuelled by increasing literacy, economic prosperity,...

IFRA Expo India 2009

April 22, 2008

Darmstadt/Chennai, 17 April 2008 – IFRA Expo India, the second-largest international exhibition in the world for trends and practices in the newspaper...

Talking the green

April 21, 2008

The excellent effort by TERI and the Delhi Administration in organizing the recent “Pathways to Green Publishing” seminar within government premises...

Cape Town Book Fair- 14 to 17 June

April 19, 2008

The Cape Town Book Fair will be held from 14 to 17 June at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Festival Director Vanessa Badroodien has confirmed...

Magdoom Mohamed promoted to MD of IFRA India

March 28, 2008

Chennai, 28 March 2008 - Magdoom Mohamed, executive director, IFRA India, has been promoted as the new Managing Director of the organisation with additional responsibility...

Colourful times for Indian periodicals

March 25, 2008

The Indian government liberalised foreign direct investment in print media in 2004. This has led to only a few investments in the news segment in which foreign investment...

The magazine boom in India

March 25, 2008

The Outlook Group currently publishes Outlook, Outlook Saptahik (in Hindi), Outlook Business, Outlook Money, Outlook Traveler,...

Yes minister, wake up minister!

March 17, 2008

In our view, the budget presented to Parliament by the finance minister P Chidambaram contains significant progress for the publishing,...

The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

March 17, 2008

The eighteenth Abu Dhabi International book fair has been the biggest thus far with about 430 publishers participating from all over the world this past week....

What my content means to me...

March 13, 2008

In a press release datelined Paris, 13 March 2008, the World Association of Newspapers has again called on Google...

Update on DB Group’s modernization

March 06, 2008

As we wrote in our January cover story, the DB Group and its joint-venture with Zee Television Diligent Media, have together placed...

The Eighteenth Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

March 01, 2008

Abu Dhabi is becoming the hub of the Arab book trade and the point of reference for booksellers as well as special trade events for publishers...

DLA new Hindi tabloid daily from Agra

March 01, 2008

We recently met Ajay Aggarwal and Hemant Anand, Editor-in-chief and Director, Marketing respectively of the new daily, DLA in Agra...

CEO-Publishers Conclave, a new event coinciding with IFRA India 2008 Conference

February 19, 2008

Nhennai, 15 February 2008 -- 'CEO-Publishers Conclave', a special stand-alone event with an international focus...

The Ushodaya disinvestments saga

February 13, 2008

Nimesh Kampani invests 1200 crores in Ushodaya Enterprises Ltd. Finance Minister okays smaller Blackstone investment...

Frankfurt Book Fair organizes seminar on business opportunities for STM and educational publishers

February 13, 2008

In co-operation with the National Book Trust, organizers of the New Delhi Book Fair, Frankfurt Book Fair organized a seminar on...

World Newspaper Congress in Göteborg in early June 08

February 07, 2008

Eenadu to make presentation on Indian multimedia growth...

India's Young Publishing Entrepreneur of the Year

December 19, 2007

British Council India, in association with Oxford Bookstore is looking for India's Young Publishing Entrepreneur of the Year ...

Newspaper profits in good nick with higher ad volume and lower costs

December 08, 2007

The Gujarati newspaper Sandesh has scored Rs 10.21 crore profit in the second quarter — a whopping 300 per cent jump from Rs 3.40 crore in the same...

NBG competing to be number 2!

December 05, 2007

After our 4-year research project at the beginning of this century we thought that the 18 or 20 Indian web offset press manufacturers might shakeout...

IfraIndia Expo

December 03, 2007

The Indian division of Ifra invited me to speak at the 2007 Conference in Chennai, September 4-6. (Note that this was the first time that an...

Times of India signs contract for high performance inserting systems

November 21, 2007

The Times of India, is the the world’s largest English-language broadsheet newspaper. A contract has been placed with Ferag for the...

India to host World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum in 2009

November 21, 2007

Congress, 16th World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo in 2009, the World Association of Newspapers announced after its board...

The opportunities and challenges of globalization

November 14, 2007

Indian publishing is on a tremendous growth curve reflecting the economic trends of an increasingly global Indian market. The worth of ...

Letter to General Pervez Musharraf from WAN protesting crackdown on press freedom

November 13, 2007

We are writing on behalf of the World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum, which represent 18,000 publications in 102...

A Quark’s Tale

November 12, 2007

In 1981, when Quark was originally founded, the publishing world had no idea of the momentous changes just around the corner; nor did...

The Indian Exhibitors at IfraExpo Vienna 8-11 October 2007

November 07, 2007

For the first time held in Vienna, and only one month after IfraExpo India, IfraExpo 2007 experienced growing interest from visitors coming...

Frankfurt Book Fair 2007

October 30, 2007

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world’s largest marketplace for publishing, translation and, more particularly, distribution rights. Even...

Top newspapers show decline in readership

October 18, 2007

Six of the top 10 newspapers showed a decline in readership, according to the IRS 2007 Round 2...

Information about a train strike on Friday, October 12

October 12, 2007

According to the latest information we have received, there will be train strikes on Friday (12 October) which are expected to last all day.

2007 PIA/GATF ratios show printing industry profits increasing in USA

October 11, 2007

Printing industry profits in USA increased slightly over the past year, back to the rates of the mid to late 1990s, according to the just...

Krause at IfraExpo 2007

October 01, 2007

At Ifra in Vienna, Krause wll launch its new Smart and Easy CtP product range for newspaper applications with the established platesetter CtP...

Bangalore — One large, three small with CtPs, and one multinational ready to wear

September 17, 2007

Bangalore is the third richest city in the country, the third-largest hub for high-net-worth individuals (HNIs) after Mumbai and Delhi. Home to...

Mitsubishi in Mihara II

September 12, 2007

As we wrote in our July issue, the Paper and Printing Machinery Division of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is part of a conglomerate ...

Ultimate announces IMPOSTRIP Page Pairing 2.0

September 11, 2007

Ultimate Technographics Inc, the imposition software developer and the inventor of digital imposition, has announced the release of...

A visit to Manugraph DGM

September 11, 2007

In November 2006, the leading Indian web offset press manufacturer Manugraph acquired Dauphin Graphic Machines, Inc. of Elizabethville...

IfraExpo India 2007 all set to showcase offerings from world’s top suppliers to newspaper, media industry

September 01, 2007

Sun Chemical Screen’s 10-year partnership with Lüscher AG, a printing equipment company, will break new ground at FESPA 2007 with the launch...

 
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