It Beats Counting Sheep

| Sherry Chiger

As an insomniac, I spend lots of time staring up at my bedroom ceiling, pondering weighty matters. For instance: Why is it so difficult to determine the

Clearing the Shelves

| Melissa Dowling

Post-holiday overstocks are like a New Year’s Day hangover: Once the party, or the catalog order curve, is over, it’s clear you’ve had too much. But the

Life Rafts

| MCM staff

In a poem by Josephine Miles, a perfectly ordinary beach picnicker is saved from drowning by a most unlikely white knight a Swedish-speaking pilot swooping

Nasco to Merge with Aristotle

| Paul Miller

The taxman, as well as a desire to grow an underdeveloped segment of its business, led $150 million educational supplies mailer Nasco International to

New Web Catalogs

| Ellen Hansen

MyPublisher.com For seven years Recollections has sold personalized photobooks through retailers and catalogers such as Wal-Mart, Eckerd, and Neiman Marcus;