Infographic: E-Books in America

I rarely consider myself a traditionalist, but when it comes to books I do prefer mine the old fashion way, or so I thought. Im not questioning the ink on paper part, Im questioning my thought that my preference is old fashioned – aka out of date, not cool etc.  Have I been e-brainwashed to […]

Marvel Releases Augmented-Reality Comics

This might just be the fan-boy/fan-girl “Holy Evolution of Comics, Batman” and it wasn’t developed in a cave or a secret laboratory. The marriage of Marvel and AR now takes the whole experience to the next dimension. Check out the video below and imagine your favorite character (if it isn’t Ironman) launching from the printed […]

Printed Magazines or Digital Magazines: Do We Have To Choose?

Love him or leaf him… you cant deny the Mr. D. Eadward Tree is passionate about the subjects he tackles over at  Dead Tree Edition. The topic of Print & Digital magazines isnt new, but Mr. Tree has put his own unique spin on it that resulted in an interesting blog post I excerpted below […]

Industry Giants Show Support for Xplor’s 2012 Conference and Vendor Forum

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hardware, Software, Mailing and Service Bureaus Assemble to Sponsor and Exhibit at Annual Event   Tampa Bay, FL—February 14, 2012—Xplor International, the worldwide electronic document systems association, today announced that many of the industry’s giants will be exhibiting at Xplor’s annual 2012 Conference and Vendor Forum, March 27-29, 2012. Sponsors and exhibitors include […]

Sorry iBooks, paper books still win on specs

Sorry PMC readers! Im a bit behind on postings after going to PODi’s AppForum last week (which was awesome btw) and speaking at the Paper Distribution Council’s conference the week before that (awesome as well!).  Luckily, Chris Harrold, VP Business Development Digital Papers at Mohawk (mohawkmakeready) sent me this article to share with all of […]

More Than Half of Americans Think the U.S. Will Never Go Paperless

This is quite interesting  – especially that 63% of the 18-29 year olds polled believe we will never be a paperless society. That is quite contrary to what seems to be the common belief that this age bracket lives and prefers to live electronically.  What isn’t mentioned is WHY they think we will never go […]

Print Empire Embraces a New Order

Not much to say here other than EVERY company out there should be taking the same approach and formulating a digital strategy.  Hopefully, you have read the interview I did with Aaron Shapiro, CEO of HUGE, a Digital Marketing Agency and author of the book Users Not Customers, because this is exactly the shift he is […]

Moving circulars into the digital age

This article is speaking to retailers to get on board with digital circulars, but I am going to focus on Printers. If you are not currently exploring or implementing a digital aspect to your services, you are going to lose out. You have the files, you have the assets, you have the clients. With a […]

The New York Times runs a cross-platform interactive ad campaign in HTML5

 Interesting in the scheme of trend-setting…  by Megan Garber  Today, for the first time, The New York Times is featuring a single HTML5 interactive ad campaign across its digital platforms. Coca-Cola is running the ads — an extension of its Arctic Home campaign and its long use of polar bears this time of year — […]

Xplor Issues Call for Annual Award Nominations

For Immediate Release Xplor Issues Call for Annual Award Nominations  Recognitions to Include Application, Innovator and Xplorer of the Year as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards Lutz, FL – November 1, 2010 – Xplor International, the worldwide electronic document systems association, today issued a call for nominations for their annual awards, presented at their 2012 […]

E-Books to dominate by 2020

This isnt bad news. This is evolution and the wake-up call for Print Service Providers to get into the e-publishing biz… NOW.   Scenario 1.I am printing a 12 page brochure with you. You have my files. After my job is complete you create an e-book for my client to post on their website and […]

Ryan McAbee reflects on the CleanSlate2011 B2B Tablet Media Conference

PMC provides Media Sponsorship for numerous Industry events around the globe throughout the year, and while we cant always attend ourselves, we are fortunate to have an audience filled with professionals who are willing to stand in for us.  Ryan McAbee, Chief Blogger at M-Bossed.com answered our call and attended CleanSlate 2001: A B2B Tablet […]