Second, trashing the 5 forces model is like saying Gutenberg was so wrong about printing and publishing!
Many people abandoned their single use film cameras and stopped printing photos as publishing photos to Facebook took off.
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In contrast, engineering fell by 6.2% and wood, paper, publishing and printing fell by 3%.
Although wood, paper publishing and printing grew over the quarter it contracted by 12.9% over the year.
There was also quarterly growth in the wood, paper, publishing and printing sector, which was up by 0.2% on the previous quarter.
The main areas of growth in the first quarter of the year, according to the figures, were food, drink and tobacco, which were up 5.3%, as well as wood, paper, publishing and printing, which were up 4.8%.
Which has prompted a handful of firms to try and marry the economics of electronic publishing with the quality of printing.
However, the non-art mainstream publishing industry is not an exemplar of the printing arts.
It has tried to shake off its rather traditional image in recent years, publishing a new weekend edition in 2005 and printing adverts on its front page for the first time in 2006.
Throw in the illegible handwriting of, say, a Beethoven, or a composer who makes changes on routinely tossed publisher's proofs but neglects to enter them on the original manuscript, as well as the inevitable errors endemic to the typesetting and printing process itself, and the vagaries of the score-publishing process become manifest.
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Dai Nippon Printing and Kodansha, two other Japanese firms that plan to supply publishing on demand, both reckon the best niche is no more than 500 copies at a time.
One should not downplay the importance of literacy, too, as the printing press and the ability to mass-produce cheap paper ignited an explosion in publishing throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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The bookstore has also used its printing press to hold a short story fiction contest, picking 42 of the best entries and publishing them in its own book.
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