After a year of rising paper prices and with the U.S. Postal Service poised to raise rates in January, production executives at business media companies have found yet another financial obstacle placed in front of them due to the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: quickly rising oil pnces. This convergence of events has forced publishers to go back again and try to find cost savings in the production cycle. And production executives fear the effects. "You can save yourself out of business," said Mike Cohen, director of manufacturing and distribution purchasing for Reed Business Information.
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