by Nicole Baxter | Nov 6, 2014 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
Museums, galleries, and artists, like traditional book publishers, are also juggling unit costs, inventory, and production management when printing their art books. While it may seem that Print-on-Demand (POD) is their only option for producing books that...
by Don Leeper | Nov 4, 2014 | Book Production, Print Positive
Dust jackets are the most difficult book components to size. Simple seeming, they are actually complex three-dimensional objects once they are wrapped on a book. A poorly fitting dust jacket is immediately obvious and is guaranteed to create that sinking...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 30, 2014 | Art Book Printing, Book Production
Bookmobile Offers Many Options to Customize Paperbacks and Hardcovers When readers buy print books, it’s not always for the content. A book can also be a tactile experience, an aesthetic experience, even an olfactory experience. (Do you sniff your books? My...
by Don Leeper | Oct 27, 2014 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Print Positive
Though printed as a flat sheet, a paperback cover becomes a three dimensional object when it’s bound to the book. While digital and offset presses print with extreme positional accuracy on the order of 1/1,000″, binding and trimming machines...
by Don Leeper | Oct 20, 2014 | Opinion
What is the true cost of publishing an eBook? Among all the disputation about eBook selling prices, one major misconception persists: that because the reproduction cost of eBooks is very low, then the cost to the publisher is low, and therefore the selling price of an...
by Don Leeper | Oct 15, 2014 | Book Production, Print Positive
When it comes to printing, book publishers are always looking for the best mix of low cost, good quality, and optimized supply. Once, they had only one printing model to work with: long runs printed on offset presses. Now, they have three more models to help...
by Don Leeper | Oct 3, 2014 | Book Production, Print Positive
There are three genera of book printing technologies: letterpress, offset, and digital. Letterpress is now mostly a medium for artists and special editions. Offset and digital presses are both widely used to print books. This post is a look at how the unique...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 1, 2014 | Opinion
My favorite festival is fast approaching: the Twin Cities Book Festival (TCBF), on October 11 at the Progress Center on the Minnesota State Fair Grounds. It’s everything I love about my town and about books, and thanks to the hard work of its host Rain Taxi, the...
by Don Leeper | Sep 22, 2014 | Book Production, Opinion
At Bookmobile, we have been working with literary, university press, independent, and trade publishers for over thirty years. We have also helped hundreds of authors self-publish. So we’ve witnessed firsthand the making of thousands of books. Like the making of...
by Nicole Baxter | Sep 18, 2014 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
What you want on your bookshelf is the entire Drawing Papers series from The Drawing Center in SoHo, New York. Bookmobile has been printing their art exhibition catalogs since 2008, and we look forward to opening every interior file to check out the fantastic...
