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>> [background sounds] >> [background sounds] >> mark bone general manager what's the most difficult part

of printing a book? >> it's as if organizing the process, getting the content in and just organizing to schedule, make sure all the books we do at the same time a scheduled properly in the customers required dates. >> once the beginning of the process? >> the content they want a printed and then their design the villages for the job. >> from the time to mature gets to you and until the time it rolls off the presses and to do the trucks, how long is that? >> typically on an initial we're looking at a three to four week period physically. on a reprint we do at it the same week. >> tell us about this company. >> the company has been at since 1956. in the late 1980s it was taken over. it was designed as a greenfield site. 1956 for both manufacturing and

distribution. that's what it's been doing for all these years. it's grown. with august increase our customer base and we are fortunate to have a large customer base and we service every year. >> how many books will you get that you publish corporate against the? we do so were in the neighborhood of 120 million a year. >> how many different books? >> thousands, tens of thousands. >> and what's happened since you've been in the business that changed in the printing books? >> run the links have gotten shorter. the publishers are very conscious of the inventory, and if their inventory is very costly for them to maintain they basically have looked to us to improve our ability to take care of short runs and the cost effective at doing that. their inventory is not at the end of our machines. basically we can do shorter runs which makes them more profitable

profitable. >> how big is it in this country? what do they'll? >> they own penguin random house which is a publisher. they own be printers which is the group we belong to. so that's pretty much their holding in the united states. >> the book this is itself, how have you seen a changed since you been in it, and how long have you been in that? >> i am going on my 36 year in the industry. basically the quick turns needs, how quickbooks need to get out the changing materials and then the competition. the e-book is coming into play now, digital printing, that type of thing. >> digital printing and the bookstores or e-books affected your business? >> they are just another part of the business.

they are part of the business and we accept that and they service the customer in a different way than we do. we've been very fortunate, our book buying has increased what hasn't decreased our need as far as what the bushes looking for. >> so go to a low bit of the process and now a book moves through here once you've got the material. >> once the content is received a place or they decide what kind of interviews, what type of paper to print a. we'll schedule it put into the prepress department which within posed in such a manner that it comes right when you read. go to the place to put on the web press, offset press take that and we take signatures off the web press and take it to the bindery. basically from their we gather signatures, bite it case it in and ship it. >> and how many people will actually be in the process as it goes through the assembly line?

>> all told in the manufacturing sector that's probably 30 if you took just one shift. >> and how big a business is this around the country? are there a lot of other companies, a lot of competition? >> there is competition. a lot of competition with ledgers and mergers so there are less names of printers but there still a lot of competition out there. there's a little must work and where all vying for that work. like i said we've been fortunate tax increase year over year. >> how much does the technology of printing changed? how has it changed speak with a lot of the doll just change on the front and. go back, sitting tight, film that type of thing the prepress air has changed quite a bit of everything comes in electronically. electronic file which we take and we oppose and make it into a product we can make a plate of and an apron. so that's the biggest change is really on the front inside.

>> when you first walk into a bookstore and they see a book sitting there for $30 on the cover, is there anyway to estimate how much it costs to actually produce that both of that $30? >> it's a few dollars less than that quite a few probably. >> i mean, it's known that publishers that, about half of the $30 goes to the publisher and the rest would go to a bookstore. of at least $15. would you say on you know $3? >> they could be in that range but i'm not really sure but obviously the manufacturing costs or is we have our cost which is mainly waiver, the expensive running the equivalent material to a lot of publishers for their own material so i don't know what all the costs are but artistically manufacturing cost, labor, that type of thing.

>> once one or two of the biggest books you printed here in the last few years? >> obviously we did a few harry potter books here. we've done john grisham books danielle steel. with also done the 50 shades that was a bestseller. today we've recently done a maze runner series is very prevalent with the movie tie-ins that's been very popular. >> what's still exciting about this business? >> just a challenge to every day you're still basic manufacturing. people actually putting their hands commissioner and producing the product. so they can look at the underlying insight i did the. it's not all electronic. it's mechanical. they've done something to produce a physical thing. >> where did you grow up? >> wisconsin just south of madison. i went to the university of wisconsin. >> how did you get into this business? >> it was one of those summer

jobs that lasted for 36 years spent where did you start? >> in wisconsin. >> what to do in the beginning? >> i was a helper on the floor. >> and then what? >> then i worked my way into apprenticeship. i got my jernigan men's -- journeyman's card and fortunate as opportunities come my way and good people helped me along. >> how did you get to berryville, virginia and? >> i worked and got transferred from all a the kansas back in the '80s. that plant was shut down. i was at work and berryville was looking to hire people and i needed a job, and they interviewed me and i accept the position the first time in 1991. >> what's the hardest part of this business? >> it's really having to do with the schedules. we have a lot of people that work here that put a lot of heart and effort into it and we have a tough schedule to meet.

people have to work a lot of hours and the schedule is off in the gated by the needs of the customers the that we get the books out in time. we are always asking employees to do more and they're very willing to do. there are good employees here who step up every week. it's one of the tougher things, but i think everybody was in this business has been in it for a while understands that they appreciate the rewards of that. >> if you look at your printing company today and compare it with when you started would you have more people on the floor now or less people? >> less people. >> how many less? >> i would say somewhere, you know 25% summer in that regard. depending on the process we are talking about. some of things technology has improved the it could be as high as 50% that obviously the cost of labor, trying to improve the process and get more capital is always looked at so we want to

reduce our cost to one of the things his way to make we have the right crew and that's an area that is reduced over the years. >> how does someone trained in this kind of for? >> is really on the job training. it's not something you go to technical school, graphic arts program, the basics of it and that's a good foundation to build on but to actually learn the printing process and think that if also in the print process, customer service prepress, digital competition from all those things are really on the jobsite things that you learn. knowledge it's passed on from one person to another. >> we read a lot about the book business in being some trouble because of the e-books and digital and all that. what has been your experience with the number of books you have been producing over the last few years? >> for chile we've seen this when people first came out i

think they're doing triple digit digit growth and we're doing double-digit decline. and basically they have kind of plateaued off and so we are seeing that level off for chile we have not seen a decline over we basically maintained well over 100 million books a year and i think for the most part even our competitors would say they are not seeing any major dip in their volume. ..