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Walking into Lightning Source's sprawling plant just outside of Nashville, Tenn., CEO J. Kirby Best recites a list of print-on-demand milestones: Lightning Source has grown from three employees in 1997 to more than 500 today; the company digitally scans about 2,000 books a week and prints 1.2 million books a month. “It took us seven years to print 10 million books,” says Best as we stroll through the 159,000-sq.-ft. building. “This year we published 10 million books in the first 11 months.”

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Industry guru Mike Shatzkin foresees big gains in e-book sales, consolidation among literary agencies, a jump in customized book sales and much more. See article at Publisher's Weekly.

Mike Shatzkin is the son of Leonard Shatzkin who wrote The Mathematics of Bookselling and In Cold Type: Overcoming the Book Crisis

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Global Marketing Network and Emerald Publishing Enter Global Alliance

Emerald Management First provided to Global Marketing Network’s Membership

19 December 2007, UK and India

Global Marketing Network (GMN), the world’s newest membership and professional development community for marketing professionals, and Emerald Group Publishing Limited, the world’s leading publisher of management research, have entered into a long-term alliance to provide GMN’s membership worldwide with exclusive access to a bespoke version of Emerald Management First, one of the world’s leading business and management portals.

Speaking at the India launch of GMN in Mumbai, Darrell Kofkin, Chief Executive of Global Marketing Network said, “We are both proud and delighted to have entered into such an exciting agreement with Emerald. This alliance ensures that our global members will now have exclusive access to a bespoke version of Emerald Management First, one of the world’s most highly regarded business portals, supporting our core objective of providing global marketers with access to world-leading knowledge and resources to enable them to keep fully up-to-date and to support their continuing professional development”. -- Read More

Some interesting tidbits on China's Oldest Library in a story with many uninteresting tidbits on evening hours at a library you'll never see. Built during the period from 1561 to 1566 in West Ningbo, Tianyi Pavilion is a famous old library which once housed an enormous collection of rare volumes, including block-printed and hand-copied books and manuscripts. They have opened to visitors on weekend evenings, in an effort to satisfy public demand.
He Hongyu, vice director of Tianyi Museum, said many Ningbo citizens and non-local tourists found that just half a day wasn't enough time for them to fully utilize the library, while others had expressed wishes to enjoy the evening scenes in Tianyi Pavilion's garden.
A ticket for a night visit costs 10 yuan (about 1.36 U.S. dollars), only half of the price of the day ticket. But visitors are advised to preorder tickets, since only 2,000 lucky people are allowed to enter the library each day.