Henry Beers
Macon, GA (USA)
Role(s):
Founder/Owner/Principal
Blue Marble Press
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Location:
Macon
Industry:
Printing
Year Founded:
2007
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Description:
Blue Marble Press is a print-on-demand company geared toward cooperative publishing endeavors with small newspapers and small newspaper groups. In it First 6 months Blue Marble has provided services to over 25 papers and produced over 6,000 books. We are currently gearing up to go national with this program. Newspapers have tremendous potential to recapture the local market for specialty publications using resources they already have. We take historic articles and images and repackage them into small run history books. We work with sports editors to do championship books for sports teams in their markets using article written during the season and photographs taken all year long. We have teamed with newspapers on small school yearbooks, band books, community photo books, self published authors, etc... There is no limit to what can be done using the local power of the newspaper and its reach into the marketplace. Teamed with a new integrated marketing campaign process and direct to consumer advertising programs by each newspaper we can assist newspapers in generating unscheduled revenue sources without additional labor or product cost. Blue Marble generates new clients to fuel growth without any advertising expense through using the newspapers unsold ad space to sell readers on a variety of publishing ideas.