Not long ago, Christmas catalogs didn’t appear in our mailboxes until around Thanksgiving, usually just after. Now the catalog deluge starts closer to Labor Day, 2 ½ months earlier, roughly coinciding ...

A certain Wall Street Journal article has been causing quite a stir lately. The article discusses the fact that big retailers such as Bonobos, IKEA, Athleta and H&M are releasing traditional print ...

Just on the heels of closing its Walton, Ky., printing plant the end of July, Arandell Holdings announced that the printing company, along with all its subsidiaries, voluntarily filed for business ...

Five years after discontinuing its "Big Book" catalog, J.C. Penney plans to return to a modified print catalog strategy, finding through analysis that online sales were partly driven by what the ...

NEW YORK CITY—04/27/2009—The number of print catalogs with online editions continued to grow from 8,675 to 8,894 over the last year (2008-2009), according to the ...

If you’re an archivist, take a look at some 10-year-old catalogs. Then inspect a current issue of the company’s catalog, assuming it’s still in business. Notice anything different? • Chances are ...

Ikea has announced the official discontinuation of its print catalog after 70 years of publication, as more people than ever flock to the company’s website to browse and buy products. A retrospective ...

After more than five years away, and at a significantly smaller weight, J.C. Penney Co.'s print catalog is back. The company discontinued its often 1,000-page "Big Book" in 2009 and phased out several ...

As far as art books go, “Matisse in the Barnes Foundation,” published last year by Thames & Hudson, is pretty exquisite: Three hardback volumes, totaling 894 pages, that tell the story of the works ...