There’s something magical about an expertly designed and beautifully crafted book. No longer simply the sum of its parts and a practical means of conveying information, such a product has real impact and real power over just what that impact might be. Kraszna-Krausz Book AwardsWinner: Best Photography Book War/Photography: images of armed conflict and its aftermathAnne Wilkes Tucker, Will Michels and Natalie Zest (Yale University Press), printed by SYL Printers War/Photography is based on a photography exhibition that opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. Images were found in military, museum, press and photographer agency archives and range from daguerreotypes documenting the Crimean and American Civil Wars to digital images made by soldiers in 21st-century Iraq. Electing this as winner was a unanimous decision, reports chair of the photography book panel and photography specialist and curator, Zelda Cheatle. The book’s win was mainly down to its fresh and insightful approach to its subject matter, but the quality of its design and print execution certainly played a big part, she explains. “It is beautifully printed. Some of the images are Russian war photographs so the negatives of the print were in very bad shape to begin with so it wouldn’t have been an easy job,” she says. How it was printed The book was printed by SYL Group, a 100-staff, high-end book printer based in Barcelona. It was printed on a B1 Heidelberg Speedmaster, on 150gsm Hello silk, and bound in-house.This paper stock was chosen, explains author of the book Anne Wilkes Tucker, to convey its serious and important subject matter. “We wanted a book that people could pick up repeatedly and would stand that kind of repeated handling, yet we also wanted a good paper stock,” she says. “We wanted it to feel like a book that is for reference, not just pretty.” The stock used was also key in making the book easy to handle, as was the quality of its binding. “The paper is not too white and has a very good weight,” says Cheatle. “Because it’s such a big book, if it had been a heavier paper it would be more difficult to handle, and yet you don’t feel like there’s any bleedthrough and it has a weight and solemnity appropriate for the topic. Quite often a big book isn’t easy to read; you’ve got to sit at a table and do it properly. But with this book it’s just about possible to sit on the sofa and have it on your lap and that is very well thought through.” Wilkes Tucker adds that quality binding is also often crucial to a book attracting a browser’s attention in a book shop crowded with other...

There’s something magical about an expertly designed and beautifully crafted book. No longer simply the sum of its parts and a practical means of conveying information, such a product has real impact and real power over just what that impact might be. Kraszna-Krausz Book AwardsWinner: Best Photography Book War/Photography: images of armed conflict and its aftermathAnne Wilkes Tucker, Will Michels and Natalie Zest (Yale University Press), printed by SYL Printers War/Photography is based on a photography exhibition that opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. Images were found in military, museum, press and photographer agency archives and range from daguerreotypes documenting the Crimean and American Civil Wars to digital images made by soldiers in 21st-century Iraq. Electing this as winner was a unanimous decision, reports chair of the photography book panel and photography specialist and curator, Zelda Cheatle. The book’s win was mainly down to its fresh and insightful approach to its subject matter, but the quality of its design and print execution certainly played a big part, she explains. “It is beautifully printed. Some of the images are Russian war photographs so the negatives of the print were in very bad shape to begin with so it wouldn’t have been an easy job,” she says. How it was printed The book was printed by SYL Group, a 100-staff, high-end book printer based in Barcelona. It was printed on a B1 Heidelberg Speedmaster, on 150gsm Hello silk, and bound in-house.This paper stock was chosen, explains author of the book Anne Wilkes Tucker, to convey its serious and important subject matter. “We wanted a book that people could pick up repeatedly and would stand that kind of repeated handling, yet we also wanted a good paper stock,” she says. “We wanted it to feel like a book that is for reference, not just pretty.” The stock used was also key in making the book easy to handle, as was the quality of its binding. “The paper is not too white and has a very good weight,” says Cheatle. “Because it’s such a big book, if it had been a heavier paper it would be more difficult to handle, and yet you don’t feel like there’s any bleedthrough and it has a weight and solemnity appropriate for the topic. Quite often a big book isn’t easy to read; you’ve got to sit at a table and do it properly. But with this book it’s just about possible to sit on the sofa and have it on your lap and that is very well thought through.” Wilkes Tucker adds that quality binding is also often crucial to a book attracting a browser’s attention in a book shop crowded with other...

According to Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figures for April 2013, The Guardian recorded the biggest upturn with a 1.15% month-on-month increase to 196,034 followed by The Times and The Telegraph with modest increases of 0.76% and 0.69% respectively. Among the tabloids circulation uplift was not so evident although The Daily Mirror achieved a month-on-month growth in figures of almost 1%. Despite the majority of weekday editions achieving at least a small circulation boost, evidently attributable to coverage of Thatcher’s death, there were still those that lost readers. Surprisingly Tory-title The Daily Mail lost 1% of its usual monthly circulation, while among the quality broadsheets The Financial Times had a 2.5% drop in circulation. Year-on-year figures, albeit buoyed slightly, continued their overall decline. Not one weekday tabloid experienced growth, with overall decline in the sector of 10.7%, compared to last year, to 4.6m. Among the quality weekday titles decline in year-on-year circulation continued as well, albeit at a slower pace than last year, with overall decline of 3.7%. Gains were made by The Times, which achieved 1.6% year-on-year growth to 393,167, and The Independent‘s successful sister title i, which once again grew circulation with a 12% increase to 271,648....

According to Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figures for April 2013, The Guardian recorded the biggest upturn with a 1.15% month-on-month increase to 196,034 followed by The Times and The Telegraph with modest increases of 0.76% and 0.69% respectively. Among the tabloids circulation uplift was not so evident although The Daily Mirror achieved a month-on-month growth in figures of almost 1%. Despite the majority of weekday editions achieving at least a small circulation boost, evidently attributable to coverage of Thatcher’s death, there were still those that lost readers. Surprisingly Tory-title The Daily Mail lost 1% of its usual monthly circulation, while among the quality broadsheets The Financial Times had a 2.5% drop in circulation. Year-on-year figures, albeit buoyed slightly, continued their overall decline. Not one weekday tabloid experienced growth, with overall decline in the sector of 10.7%, compared to last year, to 4.6m. Among the quality weekday titles decline in year-on-year circulation continued as well, albeit at a slower pace than last year, with overall decline of 3.7%. Gains were made by The Times, which achieved 1.6% year-on-year growth to 393,167, and The Independent‘s successful sister title i, which once again grew circulation with a 12% increase to 271,648....

The company’s acquisition of PrintLeader, which has a client base of around 800 commercial and in-plant printers in North America, follows a string of acquisitions in 2012 enabling the company to bolster its MIS, ERP and web-to-print reach. As part of the deal, PrintLeader’s MIS products will be absorbed into EFI’s browser-based application PrintSmith Vision, launched in 2011 to provide users with a suite of estimating, quoting, order tracking, scheduling and data collection tools. “We are very pleased to have printLEADER join the EFI family and our expanding portfolio of business automation technologies,” said Marc Olin, senior vice president and general manager of EFI Productivity Software. “We also welcome PrintLeader’s customers to our global client base. They will see additional opportunities through the combination of EFI’s and PrintLeader’s technical innovations.” PrintLeader founder and president John Fleming said that the company’s acquisition by EFI would enable it to offer its customers a “more robust and feature-rich suite of software products and high-value, web-to-print storefront solutions”....