Global thinking leads to local printing - Despite the impact on UKjobs, print-on-demand still offers many benefits

摘要

It has been a busy month for the print industry, in which the proposed job cuts at Cambridge University Press (CUP) were buried among many other similarly bad pieces of news. On the face of it, it seems that the redundancies have resulted from the fact that CUP intends to carry out more of its printing overseas. As a result, 133 British jobs will go. Nobody, including CUP I am sure, will be happy to see more redundancies on home soil, but the fact of the matter is that these losses -at least in part - result from the globalisation of the publishing industry. And as Gordon Brown pointed out only last week, in the current global recession, we cannot give in to the lure of protectionism.