Courier
is the nation’s third-largest book manufacturer.
Last year we produced over 175 million books.
If you’ve bought a book lately, there’s a good chance we made it. Courier provides a full range of book production, manufacturing and distribution services to publishers large and small. Our six plants produce books in hardcover and softcover, one-color to four-color. With press runs ranging from 500 to 1,000,000 copies, we provide one-stop shopping for publishers who require the highest quality and most attentive service in the industry.
In addition to printing customers’ books, we often manage the manufacturing and packaging of the workbooks, CDs, audio tapes and video cassettes that accompany them. And then we handle order fulfillment, warehousing, and worldwide distribution so that our customers books get to readers sooner. In combination, our end-to-end services streamline the entire process of getting books from the point of creation to the point of use.
Focusing on growth markets enables us to outperform the industry.
The markets Courier has focused on — religion, education, and specialized publishing — are growing at a much faster pace than the publishing industry overall. Moreover, they are driven by social megatrends that we believe will keep them vital, both in print and other media, well into the next century. The strength of these markets, combined with our continued commitment to valued customers in the professional reference, financial and medical publishing arenas has enabled us to achieve record growth.
Demographics combined with a strong economy and renewed federal and state commitments to education are making this a strong growth market. Courier produces books for every level, elementary school through college to professional.
This market keeps expanding as worldwide interest in religion surges, new publishers spring up everywhere, and religious organizations increase their publishing activity. Courier does it all, from Bibles and Scriptures to religious trade books and Sunday school materials.
Specialty publishers have fueled the huge growth in the number of titles today — twice that of a decade ago — by catering to demand for information on every topic under the sun from investments, to gardening, to how to score in computer games. These lean, agile niche publishers look to Courier for a broad range of services and turn-key solutions.
A full service provider with a reputation for technology innovation.
Our commitment to streamlining the process of getting books from author to reader means providing a full range of services to our publishing customers. To learn more about our book manufacturing capabilities, equipment and services please click here.
In addition to providing a full complement of digital prepress services, including computer-to-plate, Courier works to facilitate the efforts of publishers' production teams, and their composition houses. Which is why we published Right From the Start in 1996, the definite guide to digital file preparation. The revised 4th edition was published in July 2000, and we have just launched the companion website where customers can access the full text, ask questions, and download the latest drivers and utilities.
By connecting our publishing customers,
composition houses and Courier we
streamline the process and help books get to market sooner.