Printing Industry Commentary & Analysis

The E-Book Business is Back for Barnes & Noble: Now What?

Published July 22, 2009

US Commercial Printing Annual Payroll Per Employee

Published July 20, 2009

When Demand Rises, Prices Rise; When Demand Falls, Prices Fall

Published July 20, 2009

That's the basic law of economics when the supply of a good or service is constant. There's been some discussion of late about the scarcity of print workers and the need for many thousands of them. One of the clues as to whether or not there is true demand for or a shortage of workers is the change in wage levels that the marketplace offers. If wages are up, there is greater demand for workers; and if wages are down, there is obviously not. Wages are the prices set by the interaction of workers and employers in a marketplace for long-term work. Higher wages attract workers who had previously been outside the industry; lower wages inside one industry send discouraged workers elsewhere.

Mixing Up Capital With Credit, Inflation Growing, and Print's Trade Surplus

Published July 15, 2009

Daddy, What Was it Like Before the Recession?

Published July 13, 2009

Commerical Printing Shipments, 2002 vs. 2007

Published July 13, 2009

Recovery Indicators Still Stagnant

Published July 8, 2009

Should Printers Watch the Stock Market for an Upturn Clue?

Published July 1, 2009

Navigate, Don't Fear: Random Thoughts

Published June 29, 2009

Net new businesses, 12-month moving average

Published June 29, 2009

Are Printers Rational?

Published June 22, 2009

Change in Newspaper Advertising Revenue

Published June 22, 2009

June 10 Economic Webinar Q&A

Published June 15, 2009

Current Dollar/Year Change in Corporate Cash Flow

Published June 15, 2009

AIGA Designer Confidence Index

Published June 8, 2009

Welcome to Bizarro Economics Class

Published June 8, 2009

One Recovery Indicator Breaks to the Upside but Three Decline

Published June 3, 2009

Tough Thoughts for Tough Times

Published June 1, 2009

Change in Real GDP, CPI-adjusted Print Shipments & Paper Shipments

Published June 1, 2009

Missing Any Opportunities?

Published May 27, 2009

Rate of Change in Employment in Content Creation Segments

Published May 25, 2009

Where Does Print Media Fit? It's Up to Us.

Published May 20, 2009

Is Stagflation Here?

Published May 18, 2009

Change in Total Employment, March vs. April 1990-2009, US Commercial Printing

Published May 18, 2009

Beware the Economic Common Wisdom

Published May 13, 2009

Why Industry Profits Will be Tough to Come By

Published May 11, 2009

Thousands of Net New Businesses Per Month

Published May 11, 2009

When Will Things Get Better? Perhaps Soon, According to Our Indicators

Published May 5, 2009

Entrepreneurship is Not Dead

Published May 4, 2009

Change in Real US GDP on a Year/Year Basis

Published May 4, 2009

Why the Post-Recession Printing Business will Be Quite Different

Published April 29, 2009

Why the Post-Recession Printing Business will Be Quite Different

Published April 29, 2009

Unfortunately, Things are What They Seem

Published April 27, 2009

Percentage of Printers Increasing Participation in Local Business Events, Trade Shows

Published April 27, 2009

Dr. Joe talks to Peter Muir about "Renewing the Printing Industry"

Published April 22, 2009

Without Print, Will Online-only Newspapers Suffer? ... and Other Stuff

Published April 22, 2009

Why Telling Businesspeople to "Embrace Change" is Meaningless

Published April 20, 2009

Percentage of Printers Using Direct Mail Promotional Campaigns to Promote Business

Published April 20, 2009

No Matter How You Slice It, It's Still Baloney

Published April 15, 2009

The Business “Annuity Trap”

Published April 13, 2009

Investment Intentions of Commercial Printers with 10-49 Employees

Published April 13, 2009

Interrogating Dr. Joe: The Sequel

Published April 6, 2009

2009: The Year of “Things are Less Worse”

Published April 6, 2009

Printers Intending to Invest in Web-to-Print

Published April 6, 2009

Interrogating Dr. Joe

Published April 2, 2009

On Demand 2009

Published March 31, 2009

Percentage of US Commercial Printers Renegotiating Leases, Loans and other Financing

Published March 30, 2009

More Q&A from the March 25 Economic Webinar

Published March 25, 2009

Jobless Claims as a Percentage of the Civilian Workforce

Published March 23, 2009

Changing the Approach

Published March 23, 2009

Getting Past the Template

Published March 18, 2009

One Newspaper Fights Back... in Color!

Published March 16, 2009

Change in US Commerical Printing Employment 2002,2005,2008

Published March 16, 2009

Thoughts and Rants that Run Through My Head

Published March 11, 2009

Economics Data You're Not Seeing

Published March 9, 2009

Change in US Commerical Printing Establishments 2004-2009

Published March 9, 2009

Recovery Indicators Take a Mild Beating

Published March 4, 2009

The Swamp Got Deeper

Published March 2, 2009

U.S. Commerical Printing's Relationship to GDP

Published March 2, 2009

Get Ready for the Post-Recession Printing Industry... Whenever that May Be

Published February 25, 2009

How to Remain viable in the Communications Marketplace

Published February 23, 2009

Federal Reserve Commercial Printing Capacity Utilization

Published February 23, 2009

Price Cutting and Print Competition

Published February 17, 2009

The Stimulus Passed... Now What

Published February 16, 2009

Size of the U.S. Printing Industry Compared to other Industries

Published February 16, 2009

Media Shifts Evidenced in Employment Data: Public Relations Emerges from the Shadows

Published February 11, 2009

You Have to Look Under the Hood

Published February 9, 2009

Change in Employment December 2003 vs. December 2008

Published February 9, 2009

Are We There Yet?

Published February 4, 2009

Mischaracterizing the Economy

Published February 2, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 50+ Employees

Published February 2, 2009

A Poorly Printed Book: Maybe We Should Ask Why

Published January 28, 2009

Welcome to the "Offline Media" Business

Published January 26, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 10-49 Employees

Published January 26, 2009

Dr. Joe Interviews Dr. Michael Cunningham

Published January 23, 2009

Dr. Joe's Economic Recovery Plan

Published January 19, 2009

So, Dr. Joe, Where's All That Inflation You Warned Us About?

Published January 19, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 1-9 Employees

Published January 19, 2009

Change in Revenues for Commercial and Quick Printers with 1-9 Employees

Difference in Revenue Trends Among General Commercial Printers vs. Digital Commercial Printers

Published January 15, 2009

When Will Things Get Better?

Published January 14, 2009

Time to Recalibrate Our Resolutions

Published January 12, 2009

Odds and Ends as We Close Out 2008

Published December 17, 2008

Does “Marketing Services” Make a Difference?

Published December 15, 2008

Capacity Utilization in 20+ Year Decline

Published December 15, 2008

Answers to December 10th's Webinar Questions

Published December 10, 2008

Recessions and Technological Change

Published December 8, 2008

Business Confidence of Leading Graphic Designers

Published December 8, 2008

Twenty-five Years

Published December 1, 2008

Change in Publishing and Content Creation Employment

Published December 1, 2008

The Economy: More stuffing than turkey

Published November 25, 2008

Births and Deaths of U.S. Commercial Printing Establishments

Published November 24, 2008

Trudging Through the Economic Swampland

Published November 24, 2008

Catching Up with the Economy and Optimistic Old Media Guys

Published November 18, 2008

The Postal Service Blames the Economy for Its Shortfall; Don't Believe It

Published November 17, 2008

Education and the Graphic Arts: What's Next?

Published November 17, 2008

Technology Waits for No One, When the Market Goes One Way, Be Sure to Go the Other Way

Published November 12, 2008

4-quarter Change in Net Sales of Publicly Traded Commercial Printers

Published November 10, 2008

Planning Often Gets in the Way of Running Business Well

Published November 10, 2008

News, Unproven Illusions, and Plain Speaking

Published November 4, 2008

Number of U.S. Graphic Design Establishments

Published November 4, 2008

Articles by Dr. Joe Webb