EXPLORING NEW PUBLISHING LANDSCAPES
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EXPLORING NEW PUBLISHING LANDSCAPES
Surprisingly perhaps , confirms Books Division SVP Michael Shea , the fastestgrowing book sector last year was in hardbacks . In 2018 , the American Association of Publishers ( AAP ) reported that despite the success of e-books , the case bound books segment grew by 6 % while e-books declined by 4 %. While this trend sustains the core printing capability of LSC , the biggest potential lies in innovation : specifically , the provision of value-added services that enable publishers to offload the purely administrative aspects of book delivery .
Publishers may have previously been constrained by a traditional mindset but today , the benefits of consolidating warehousing and order fulfillment are driving change , no doubt stimulated by the Amazon model . LSC has expanded
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