Business Chief USA February 2019
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SUPPLY CHAIN<br />
CLICK TO WATCH: ‘XFROM FILE TO FINAL DESTINATION’<br />
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that need might be. They knew we could<br />
manufacture a book for them; now we<br />
are managing their warehousing as<br />
well, distributing their product from our<br />
warehouses across the <strong>USA</strong>, and even<br />
handling the back-end collection and<br />
cash applications within their business.”<br />
EXPLORING NEW<br />
PUBLISHING LANDSCAPES<br />
Surprisingly perhaps, confirms Books<br />
Division SVP Michael Shea, the fastestgrowing<br />
book sector last year was in<br />
hardbacks. In 2018, the American<br />
Association of Publishers (AAP) reported<br />
that despite the success of e-books,<br />
the case bound books segment grew<br />
by 6% while e-books declined by 4%.<br />
While this trend sustains the core printing<br />
capability of LSC, the biggest potential<br />
lies in innovation: specifically, the<br />
provision of value-added services that<br />
enable publishers to offload the purely<br />
administrative aspects of book delivery.<br />
Publishers may have previously been<br />
constrained by a traditional mindset<br />
but today, the benefits of consolidating<br />
warehousing and order fulfillment are<br />
driving change, no doubt stimulated by<br />
the Amazon model. LSC has expanded<br />
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