Top 30 Book Manufacturers — The Plot Thickens

HEGWOOD: Rising paper costs have definitely had an effect on larger print companies that focus on long print runs. For companies like [us], which focus on print-on-demand (POD) and inventory reduction, paper is a smaller percentage of our operating cost, so rising paper costs have had less of an effect and, in fact, are fueling the move from long-run web applications to short-run POD applications.