Books

RR Donnelley plans three-way split
Bigger is no longer better for RR Donnelley – the giant printing and communications conglomerate has decided to break itself up into three separate businesses.

Book charts Butler & Tanner story
A new book celebrates the history of once-mighty British book printer Butler & Tanner.

Printing error blamed for missing text in Go Set a Watchman books
A printing error has been blamed for missing text in a number of copies of one of this century’s most hotly anticipated books.

Precision Printing's £2.75m upgrade
The Precision Group has invested £2.75m over the past month as it revamps its operations in London and Sunderland.

New Fifty Shades book smashes sales record
Grey, the latest novel by Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James, has sold more copies in the UK in its first three days than any adult title has in its first week.

Konica Minolta to make KM-1 announcement at London Digital Printing Forum
Konica Minolta is set to reveal more details about its KM-1 B2 inkjet press at next month’s London Digital Printing Forum, which the company is also sponsoring.

Pureprint makes London Book Fair debut
Uckfield-based digital and litho printer Pureprint is exhibiting at the London Book Fair for the first time this week.

New structure for CPI UK
A restructure of CPI Group’s UK operations has resulted in the departure of two senior executives and two high-profile returnees to the book printer’s revamped management team.

Clays makes multimillion-pound ‘strategic’ HP investment
St Ives Clays has announced that it will purchase multiple HP Inkjet web presses in a multimillion-pound deal that marks the next major stage in its digital production print strategy for the UK book...

Printondemand-worldwide buys Hunkeler Book Block Line at Innovationdays
Digital book printer Printondemand-worldwide has invested in a custom-designed Hunkeler Book Block Line, which it first saw and made the decision to buy at the manufacturer’s Innovationdays event in...

Kolbus buys T-Fold know-how
The Timsons T-Fold is set to live on under the ownership of Kolbus.

Timsons leaves multimillion-pound shortfall
Timsons has left an estimated shortfall of almost £4m, with trade creditors and employees owed £1.7m of the total sum.