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CPI and Zeitfracht are expanding their on-demand printing (PoD) capabilities at the Erfurt location: greater variety / better quality / faster delivery

Erfurt, March 11, 2025. Zeitfracht Medien and CPI continue to pursue their print-on-demand strategy. Thanks to a significant expansion of printing capacity and extensive technological investments at the Erfurt facility, even more books will be available at any time and on short notice in the future.  For Zeitfracht Medien’s book wholesalers, publishing distributors, and publishing suppliers, this means…

Strongly growing Print on Demand (PoD) business: Zeitfracht and CPI continue to invest in the future

Erfurt, October 10, 2024 Zeitfracht Medien is working closely with its printing partner, CPI books, to consistently advance its Print on Demand (PoD) capabilities. Back in the spring of this year, the PoD printing facility located at the logistics center was directly integrated into the conveyor system. This has enabled faster delivery times for direct-to-customer orders from bookstores…

Zeitfracht Logistik Holding increases earnings and EBITDA in the first half of 2024 / Strategy adjustment and focus on core business show clear effect 

Kleinmachnow (Berlin), October 1, 2024. At Zeitfracht Logistik Holding GmbH (“Zeitfracht Logistik” or “the Company”), a leading mid-sized provider of services in the fields of systems, media, electronics, and textile logistics, the strategic realignment implemented at the start of the year—with a focus on the core business—is having a significant impact: Despite challenging economic conditions, the Company increased…

Save the Date: The German Children's Book Prize, endowed with 100,000 euros, will be awarded on October 12 from 11:00 a.m. at the German Sports and Olympic Museum in Cologne

Berlin, Cologne, September 17, 2024. Cologne is this year’s Children’s Book City: After the German Children’s Book Prize, worth a total of 100,000 euros, was awarded in Berlin, Leipzig, and Nuremberg in recent years, Cologne is now taking center stage for children’s book authors. At the German Sports and Olympic Museum there, the…

The shortlist for this year's German Children's Book Prize has been announced / Award ceremony on October 12 in Cologne / Three nominees for the Special Illustration Prize

Berlin, August 5, 2024. The shortlist for this year’s German Children’s Book Prize has been announced and includes ten outstanding titles. The selection process began after the submission deadline on May 31, 2024, when the adult jury selected the best books from a large number of entries. Now the anticipation is building: The children’s jury, consisting of 32 children…

Successful Buch&Co. annual conference in Erfurt / Artificial intelligence in the book trade - exciting topics for the future

Erfurt, July 2, 2024. Artificial intelligence can also make day-to-day operations significantly easier for bookstores: This and other topics related to the future provided plenty of discussion material for participants at the annual meeting of the Buch&Co. bookstore cooperative, a group of 450 independent booksellers in Germany and Austria. The event in Erfurt offered the…

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