Re: Book recall

"-CELKO-" <jcelko212_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:1180532030.227415.7030_at_p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> >> missing and duplicate pages - an excellent demonstration of two of the
most problematic SQL features - NULLs and bags! <<
>
> LOL! Seriously, tho, I vaguely know that technical books are now
> printed in short batch runs from digital storage of some kind on
> specialized printing/bindery machines. They are too smart to be
> called printing presses any more. The covers are done by a company
> that is set up for color work and the interiors by another.
>
> The publishers get advance orders from the bookstore chains which
> dominate the US market and do a first printing to fill those orders
> and put as few copies into their own warehouse as possible.
>
> Minor typos that do not change the pagination can be done in between
> printings digitally and then the book gets short run printings based
> on the reorders -- again mostly from the bookstore chains. The real
> compliment is seeing a printing number that is over 2 when I look at a
> copy of one of my books at a Barnes & Noble :)
>
> What I am trying to figure out is how the signatures got messed up in
> such an automated process.
>

Perhaps it's a data management problem. Received on Wed May 30 2007 - 15:59:48 CEST