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This article discusses The Greenaway Plan, a contract plan worked out by the Free Library of Philadelphia with the J.B. Lippincott Company to receive before publication date one copy of each trade title published. At this time the Free Library has entered into agreements with a number of publishers and intends to continue as long as the publishers are willing to do so. This contract plan was designed to get new publications into the library for review purposes as far as ahead as publication date as possible. Public libraries for years have attempted to secure review copies of books prior to publication date in order to complete the library process as close to publication date as possible. From the publisher point of view, the number of duplicates order is of great interest, therefore the contract plan is only advantageous to them when the library can purchase multiple copies of a given title. Under the contract plan much paper work is eliminated. The reduction of clerical routine and elimination of time consuming problems saves money for the publisher. However much time is saved or cost of operation lowered, the test of the contract plan is whether new titles are being made available to the public more rapidly than previously.

This article reports on the launch of the publishing company Chronicle Press by the newspaper, San Francisco Chronicle, in the U.S. in 2005. Once the owner of Chronicle Books, the San Francisco Chronicle has gotten back into the book business with the launch of Chronicle Press. The press has released two titles by newspaper staffers, The San Francisco Century and Mystical San Francisco. Chronicle Press is run by the paper's deputy editor, Narda Zacchino, who said the publishing effort will focus on packaging the paper's previously published content in book form.

The article offers the author's insights on having a first time work in a small community paper and local publication. The author mentions that moving to a big publication might give the impression of experiencing change. The author adds that having a good working relation with colleagues is important in the publication industry.

An interview is presented with Robert E. Munford, general manager of Pacific Publishing Co. Inc., Seattle, Washington, on print publishing. Munford said his greatest challenge has been to keep abreast of the color requirements of their own publications and hundreds of commercial accounts they support over three shifts 5 and 1/2 days a week. He said they continue to look for and offer small add on value programs that print clients can deliver to potential advertisers and to their own papers.