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The article discusses the growing market for gift books and the process of publishing gift books. Topics include how gift books are designed with aesthetics such as paper quality, embellishments, and foil, as well as editorial content in mind, why publishers want gift books to be sold in physical stores and focus on gift books that can be sold in retail stores other than bookstores, and the popularity of gift cookbooks such as "Tequila Sunrise" by Tim Federle.

The article reports on booksellers switching from paper to electronic catalogues. Private companies are using versatile quick-start, high-capacity T300 and T350 inkjet webs from Hewlett- Packard Co. to deal with unpredictable title popularity. Digital production is said to be burning holes in order processing, production, and inventory management systems of book manufacturers.

Reveals the plan of publishers in the U.S. to release paperback originals due to consumer demand. Attitude of book reviewers toward trade paper originals; Comments from proponents of paperback originals; Publishers which have started publishing paperback originals.

The article reports on booksellers switching from paper to electronic catalogues. Carole Horne, general manager of Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says that electronic catalogues save publishers on printing and mailing costs. HarperCollins Publishers LLC first took the plunge in 2009 to go all digital.

Presents information related to distribution of books as of January 24, 2000. Topics of the white papers published by Publishers Marketing Association; Area of the distribution center of National Book Network in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania; Agreement of Dufour Editions with John Jones Publishing and John Donald Books for the rights to distribute their books in the United States and Canada.