Third Place Press – On Demand Books

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Third Place Books is one of the few owners of the Espresso Book Machine® from On Demand Books; it is a fully integrated system that prints, binds and trims books with full color covers. The Espresso Book Machine can produce paperbacks in variable combinations of trim sizes between 4.5″ x 5.0″ and 8.25″ x 10.5″ Keep reading here » Third Place Press – On Demand Books

The Environment Report: Fixing the Organic Label

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They cost more, but sales of organic foods are rising. Even in this down economy, organic food sales are going up 3-times faster than other foods.

That’s happening as the government is working to make sure everything that’s labeled organic actually is organic.

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PUMA’s “Clever Little Bag (Box?)”

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PUMA has designed the ultimate “flat box!”

The bag/box is made of a single folded sheet of cardboard in a resuable, recyclable PET bag, designed to protect shoes from the time they leave the factory until the customer gets them home.

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Choose Not to Use

To print or not to print, that is the question.

Suddenly print-on-demand is a green strategy! Produce what you need, when you need it. Does that sound familiar? Actually sounds like the advice my mother used to give us when we were kids: “Take only what you can eat.”

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Labels – Not Just a Pretty Face

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Rolls and rolls of labels come pouring out of John Shanley’s plant, Labels West. Located in Woodinville, the heart of Washington “wine country,” Labels West produces labels for some of the best names among the nearly 300 wineries gaining national and international recognition in the wine industry. Traditionally labels like those that appear on consumer Keep reading here » Labels – Not Just a Pretty Face

This is the End of Publishing/This is NOT the End of Publishing

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Take a close look at this from a marketing perspective. What happens when you flip everything you thought you saw and heard on its head?

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