Paper Industry Begins to Stabilize:
It’s no secret that the paper industry has suffered through volatility as digital mediums wrest readers from print. The aggregate effects of publishers slashing pages and mills shutting down swung prices wildly over the past several years on yet another front of the battle between digital and print.
The market may be stabilizing though as paper mills adjust and page counts slow their decline.
For Terry Choate, president of Making Magazines, static pricing has been a function of the paper mill industry’s ability to manage their own supply.
“The paper mills have done a better job downsizing recently,” he says. “[They’re at] the point where their capacity is pretty much in line with demand.”
