Michael Shea — Senior Vice President , Book Division , LSC Communications — is a seasoned printing and publishing executive with over 20 years of pioneering ventures in content management , custom publishing and book manufacturing . Throughout his career , he has demonstrated the vision and drive to capture high-growth opportunities in the rapidly changing publishing and printing industries . His early successes with technology-driven print solutions led to more comprehensive solutions spanning the entire spectrum of book manufacturing including content management , physical and digital production , distribution and inventory management . His most recent focus has been working with industry supply chain participants to combat book piracy . FEBRUARY 2019
LSC COMMUNICATIONS
74 cost of their production down . That is really the focus of our strategy : saving cost and creating efficiency along the supply chain at the sales and marketing end also helps them to sell more products . It ’ s a double winner for the client enabling them to sell more product while producing it faster through our proven print capability .”
The conversation is no longer about traditional offset versus digital printing – LSC can handle any volumes in either format – but more about e-services , warehousing and fulfillment as well as supply chain management . LSC ’ s clients include educational giants like McGraw-Hill , Pearson , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , new edtech players like Amplify , general publishers such as Random House and HarperCollins as well as niche players like Workman Publishing and Abrams . It is also a major printer of bibles and religious books . “ These are all very different businesses , but they all need both product and services ,” says McCree . “ We set out to be more intimate than the average large printing organization by making sure we are meeting the needs of each one of those clients wherever
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Michael Shea — Senior Vice President , Book Division , LSC Communications — is a seasoned printing and publishing executive with over 20 years of pioneering ventures in content management , custom publishing and book manufacturing . Throughout his career , he has demonstrated the vision and drive to capture high-growth opportunities in the rapidly changing publishing and printing industries . His early successes with technology-driven print solutions led to more comprehensive solutions spanning the entire spectrum of book manufacturing including content management , physical and digital production , distribution and inventory management . His most recent focus has been working with industry supply chain participants to combat book piracy . FEBRUARY 2019