Here are just a few of the gems you might’ve missed in social media this week…
- Paperlinx shares falling 7% after the company’s $267 million annual loss
- Students being forced to shift to e-textbooks
- The book shop taking on Amazon by installing an “instant” book printing machine
- Britain’s longest running comic abandoning print
- Amcor boosting its tobacco packaging business in Europe and the Americas
- A teenager accused of using a digital printer to run a fake ID ring
- The American start-up selling ads on toilet paper
- Facebook trying to cash in on print
- Photos of the fire at Australian Paper Recovery’s Melbourne site
- Printed road maps finding a niche in a GPS world
- How relevant are trade shows?
- Are there any industries you refuse to touch? Tobacco? Alcohol? Gambling?
- Could digital print ever entirely replace conventional printing?
- How important are business cards?
- What’s your most common method of following-up enquiries?
Our top five stories this week were…
1) Blue Star: nothing sinister in delisting, underlying position ‘very positive’
2) Sydney printer buys assets of design agency before $300k liquidation
3) Paperlinx losses total $1.4 billion in four years
4) Heidelberg pulls out of Ipex 2014
5) Plain tobacco pack law puts the choke on fancy printing
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