DOVE VALLEY — The Denver Broncos are tossing out the tradition of printing 500-page playbooks every week for each of the 120 players, coaches, scouts and other personnel.
This season, the team will hand out iPads that feature the week’s game plan, scouting reports, video clips and other relevant data.

The digital transition will not only save trees but may also give the Broncos a competitive edge. Just two other teams in the National Football League — the Baltimore Ravens and Tampa Bay Buccaneers — have discarded the printed playbook in favor of a tablet and an app.

Now when Broncos head coach John Fox adds a play, the update will be pushed automatically to the playbook app on each player’s iPad.

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WASHINGTON, DC—April 20, 2012—According to the American Forest & Paper Association’s March 2012 “Printing-Writing Paper Report,” total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 11 percent in March compared to March 2011. Three of the four major printing-writing grades posted double-digit decreases compared to last March, and the one single-digit decrease was the largest for that grade since 2009.

U.S. purchases (shipments + imports – exports) of printing-writing papers decreased 16 percent in March. Total printing-writing paper inventory levels increased slightly, up just one percent compared to February 2012.

Additional key findings include:
March 2012 shipments of uncoated free sheet (UFS) papers were the only grade down less than double-digits. As a point of reference, March 2011 shipments of UFS were the highest since October 2008. UFS year-to-date shipments down two percent.
Shipments of coated free sheet (CFS) papers decreased year over year by a double-digit percentage for just the third time since 2009. CFS year-to-date shipments down four percent.
Compared to a very strong March 2011, coated mechanical (CM) paper shipments showed the greatest year-over-year decline of the four grades.
Uncoated mechanical (UM) paper purchases down sharply partly as a result of UM imports hitting their lowest level since February 1997.

High-speed, high-tech printers will help the Louisiana Association for the Blind create a new employment niche.

A new building under construction on Claiborne Avenue in Shreveport will house the expanded printing division. President and CEO Shelly Taylor expects to move into the 29,000-square-foot building in about a year.

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COHOES, NY—April 10, 2012–At launch events held in New York over the last three weeks for customers and employees, Mohawk Fine Papers revealed its blueprint to transform its premium paper business to thrive in today’s digital world. In his presentations, Thomas D. O’Connor Jr., Mohawk chairman and CEO, outlined his vision for the future.

“Everywhere you read that print is declining, but the opportunities with the new digital technologies, or with what I would call ‘the new generation of print’, are great,” O’Connor said. “Technology disrupts, recessions clarify, and successful companies reinvent. That’s what we’re doing right now.”

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(EndPlay Staff Reports) – Rapper Snoop Dogg is about to enter the book publishing market with a book that you can not only read, but smoke.

What?

Time reported that “Rolling Words: A Smokable Songbook” will be released from Snoop as a marketing campaign for his new Kingsize Slim Rolling Papers.

In a video for the book, Snoop Dogg says that the book reprints lyrics to his past songs like “G-Thang” and “Gin and Juice.” He tells fans, “This thing can also be smoked with some of your finest, where you at or however you at.”

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SOMERVILLE, MA—Fire officials here may have saved the life of an employee trapped inside a waste paper collection silo at Universal Wilde, according to The Boston Globe. Carlos Barboza, who was trapped under a crushing pile of paper on April 5, was freed after fire officials cut two holes in the silo to extricate him.

Barboza, a press operator, had climbed inside the silo in order to remove a paper jam clogging a hopper. When he cleared the jam, more paper fell on top of Barboza and trapped him. The employee communicated with fire officials via his cell phone as they worked for 45 minutes to free him.

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NEW YORK—Kerry Haggard, 47, of Commerce, GA, was sentenced to 78 months in prison for selling horror movie posters and lobby cards that he represented over the Internet and elsewhere as authentic vintage collectibles, but were in fact fakes, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced. Haggard pled guilty to one count of mail fraud on Oct. 24, 2011, and was sentenced this week in Manhattan federal court by U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon.

From January 2006 to August 2009, Haggard engaged in a scheme to defraud collectors by selling purportedly vintage horror movie posters and lobby cards that he represented as original pieces, knowing that the items were reproductions he had created himself. Haggard used a New York-based printing company to make high-quality copies of horror movie cards or posters from either hard copies or digital scans of pieces he provided. He also used a restoration company to attach the copies to lobby card stock and alter the resulting product to make it look as real as possible.

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Decreasing demand for publication papers in the U.S. is apparently having a counterintuitive result: higher prices. Or, at the least, higher minimum price levels during down markets.

There’s a logical explanation, and it doesn’t involve repealing the law of supply and demand. Nor does it mean that paper companies will be especially profitable in the future.

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TULSA, Okla. — Plenty of people are upset at Amazon these days, but it took a small publishing company whose best-known volume is a toilet-training tome to give the mighty Internet store the boot.
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The Educational Development Corporation sells books from England to toy stores and bookshops in the United States.
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The Educational Development Corporation, saying it was fed up with Amazon’s scorched-earth tactics, announced at the end of February that it would remove all its titles from the retailer’s virtual shelves. That eliminated at a stroke $1.5 million in annual sales, a move that could be a significant hit to the 46-year-old EDC’s bottom line.

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