O´Reilly Brings Back RepKover Lay-Flat Bindings

Sebastopol, CA--Lay-flat bindings are back. Readers of O´Reilly & Associates´ books will once again be able to plop their book next to a terminal or on a cafe table and be sure that it will stay open to the page they´re perusing. O´Reilly is reinstating the RepKover binding, which allows the interior of a book to ˝float˝ free from its cover. More durable and flexible than a traditional perfect binding, the RepKover binding allows the interior of a book to lay flat when open.

O´Reilly books featuring RepKover bindings will start appearing in bookstores immediately. Going forward, all new books will be produced with the much-loved lay-flat binding (except for books that are too thin or thick for the RepKover process).

˝Our printers, Malloy and Courier, have been true partners with us in this endeavor,˝ said Sue Willing, O´Reilly´s Manufacturing Manager. ˝In September 2001, after using RepKover binding for almost a decade, O´Reilly had to make the difficult decision to suspend the use of lay-flat binding as a cost-saving measure. We promised our customers we´d resume using RepKover, and because of our printing partners´ creativity and flexibility, we´re now able to keep that promise without raising the price of our books.˝

˝In order to best serve O´Reilly´s requirements,˝ said Joe Upton, whose family owns Malloy, ˝we purchased a RepKover machine in 1992, one of the first in the U.S. I´m not sure if we would have ever purchased our RepKover equipment had lay-flat binding not been a critical need of O´Reilly.˝

˝If we weren´t able to offer RepKover to O´Reilly back in 1999, we never would have made it onto their approved vendor list. Luckily, we had purchased our RepKover binder in 1994,˝ said Tom Connell of Courier Corporation.

The RepKover logo appears on the copyright page of all O´Reilly books produced with the lay-flat binding.

About O´Reilly
O´Reilly & Associates is the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies. The company´s books, conferences, and web sites bring to light the knowledge of technology innovators. O´Reilly books, known for the animals on their covers, occupy a treasured place on the shelves of the developers building the next generation of software. O´Reilly conferences and summits bring alpha geeks and forward-thinking business leaders together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. From the Internet to XML, open source, .NET, Java, and web services, O´Reilly puts technologies on the map.

Source: O´Reilly & Associates, Inc.
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2004-03-02 16:48

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