David Cressey wrote:
> "-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.
Maybe the people who wrote the software "learned" data management from Joe.
Received on Wed May 30 2007 - 16:46:45 CDT
