by Nicole Baxter | Sep 8, 2016 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
We do a lot of children’s book printing here at Bookmobile, and one great recent example is Home at Word Up: A Story of a Bookshop in Washington Heights. Word Up is a a multilingual, general-interest, nonprofit community bookstore and arts space in New...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 30, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
On August 18, 2016, Kickstarter announced that $100 million has been pledged to Kickstarter publishing projects—to authors, publishers, bookstores, poets, podcasters, and more. From what we’ve seen at Bookmobile, I believe it. Congratulations to...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 17, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production
At Bookmobile, we offer short run hardcover book printing with options. Unlike other short run printers, we offer choices like odd trim sizes, printed end sheets, large-area foil stamps, and more. And unlike offset printers, we can offer many of these options on a run...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 10, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
Here at Bookmobile, we’ve been printing a lot of custom coloring books. Just this week we shipped out Color Me Drone Warfare! by The Cluster Project, a web gallery and blog that “uses multimedia artworks to explore weapons, war, civilian...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 27, 2016 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
South Dakota Review, from The University of South Dakota, is a new literary magazine printing client for Bookmobile. The South Dakota Review is a quarterly print journal publishing fiction, poetry, essays, literary reviews, and translations. Since 1963,...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 22, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Publisher Case Studies
Webb: The Big Race is the latest graphic novel printing we’ve done for a Kickstarter client. Created by Mike Cucka, John Salimbene, and Brad Gorby, Webb is the story a stock car racer (named Webb) fighting a corporation who pushes consumerism. As...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 24, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Publisher Case Studies
This is definitely the first unboxing video that features a Bookmobile book! We print quite a few Kickstarter books, and we’ve seen social media shares of photos of proofs, boxes of books, and books out in the world, but seeing our books unpacked on...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 21, 2016 | Art Book Printing
To be clear, Bookmobile does NOT produce true, one-at-a-time, Print-on-Demand photo books. But our minimum run is 25 copies, and really, why would you just want one copy of your fine art photo book? Why put an art book (or any book for that matter) through a POD...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 15, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
A Bestiary by Lily Hong, published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, is a great example of the breadth of options available with Bookmobile’s short-run digital book printing. Not many—if any—other short-run printers...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 7, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production
I think it’s a natural fit that Bookmobile, a digital short run book printing company, is printing books for MakerBot, the purveyor of 3D digital printers. Here at Bookmobile, we’ve often wondered if and how we could use a MakerBot. The 3D-printed...