April US Commercial Printing Shipments Down -3.4%; Shipments Down 12 of Last 13 Months (Economics & Research Center)
April 2012 U.S. commercial printing shipments were $6.672 billion in current dollars. For perspective, in April 2008, current dollar shipments were $8.636 billion, nearly $2 billion more, at a time when social media was gaining steam, the iPhone was just another gadget, and the iPad was barely a rumor.
