Notes from Nias - All Comments

re: What’s up with print stock?

Matthew Parker — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:31:33 GMT

Is this a fair time to look at the share price of printers? With current market conditions there are few firms showing a huge rise in share price, unless they are involved in commodities or energy? However, why should the Printing.com share price rise when it meets (not exceeds) expectations?

If print companies want to improve their standing then they need to look hard at their profit margins and try and improve them year on year. They need to look at efficient operating as much as sales.

Matthew Parker

www.printandprocurement.com

re: Ugly e-books have no future in an iPod world

Dylan Mills — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:29:23 GMT

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told listeners of the company’s fourth quarter earnings call that retailer was having trouble keeping up with the demand for the Kindle:

"The Kindle, in terms of demand, is outpacing our expectations,” Bezos said. “It is also, on the manufacturing side, causing us to scramble. We’re working very hard to increase the number of units that we can build and supply per week, so that we can get back—our goal is to get into a situation as quickly as we can where when you order a Kindle, we ship it immediately… We are super-excited by the very strong demand.”

re: Ugly e-books have no future in an iPod world

Matthew Parker — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:39:48 GMT

People sentimental about an A-format paperback? I don't think so! Let's not forget that the i-Pod led to lots of podcasts. Many are providing a new medium for information that would have been provided by printed matter before. Printers need to wake up to the fact that print will continue to be eroded unless they can give the medium more unique selling points.

Matthew Parker

www.printandprocurement.com

re: Ugly e-books have no future in an iPod world

DM DEESON — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:17:22 GMT

E-paper and e-readers will not be a serious threat to the book market, but they will revolutionise magazine and newspaper sales, where there is significantly less sentimentality about the formats. Plus, the way that Royal Mail keeps increasing Presstream and Mailsort prices, it will cost more to send publications than their cover price.