About Bookmobile Printing Services
Serving Book Publishers Since 1982
Independently owned and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bookmobile provides book printing, graphic design, and other resources to support book publishers in an ever-changing environment. Superior quality, excellent customer service, flexibility, and timely turnarounds have attracted over 1,100 satisfied clients to Bookmobile, including trade houses, university presses, independent publishers, museums, galleries, artists, and more.
Recent Work
Bookmobile’s Quality and Options
Bookmobile was founded in 1982 as a typesetting house for book publishers, but it soon expanded into a full range of services. Bookmobile launched its Print-on-Demand services in December of 1996, and it remains a pioneer in book production. In 2004, we began Itasca Books to provide distribution services.
There’s no need to choose between standard or premium quality at Bookmobile—all books are of the highest quality, and books are never produced sight unseen.
Each Bookmobile book run includes exceptional quality control standards ensuring that each book meets over 60 criteria during the production process. These stringent production standards produce the highest quality books. Bookmobile also offers innumerable production options, including a variety of paper stocks and trim sizes, from 3″ x 4″ to 12″ x 12″. Unlike other short-run printers, Bookmobile can produce French flaps, color inserts, foldout inserts, embossing, debossing, printed end sheets, and more. Check out the Bookmobile Gallery for options and inspiration, and contact us for a quote.
Customer Service
Bookmobile responds to client inquiries within 24 hours with quotes, schedules, production queries, and answers to any questions. Bookmobile’s customer service representatives draw on over 42 years of experience and give every book the attention and care it deserves. Get started with a quote!
Employment
Want to join our team? Looking for job openings? Contact our Human Resources Manager, Rossanna Castellanos.
Milestones
August 2024
- Hans Weyandt is the new Distribution Manager for Itasca Books, a division of Bookmobile. Mark Jung retires after twenty years.
May 2024
- Don Leeper, CEO, transitions from CEO to Chairman of the Board. Jake Soderberg is named Managing Director.
November 2023
- Bookmobile installs the Challenge CMT 330 to increase productivity and speed schedules
August 2023
- Bookmobile offers custom slipcases for hardcovers and paperbacks
June 2022
- Bookmobile, Itasca Books, and Artmobile move to 210 Edge Place, Minneapolis, 55418
November 2021
- Bookmobile prints book 12,775,723.
June 2021
- Bookmobile launches Artmobile, an independent marketplace for unique books.
October 2019
- Bookmobile adds saddle stitch as a binding option (discontinued in April 2023)
September 2018
- Bookmobile becomes a print provider for the Chicago Distribution Center, to automatically replenish inventory
August 2018
- Cardozo Fine Art publishes the historic republication of Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian, with Bookmobile as the printer and binder
January 2018
- Bookmobile offers soft-touch velvet matte lamination, in addition to our standard layflat matte and gloss laminations
October 2017
- Bookmobile offers a new hardcover option: a cloth linen hardcover case with an inset cover image
May 2017
- Bookmobile becomes an Etsy Manufacturing print provider
September 2016
- Bookmobile installs a Xerox 1000i color printer to increase our capacity for art book printing.
December 2015
- Bookmobile prints book 9,000,001.
- Itasca Books goes live with a new book distribution system.
November 2015
- Bookmobile becomes a Kickstarter Creators’ Resource.
August 2015
- Bookmobile adds a PUR binder for fine art and photo book printing.
June 2015
- Bookmobile increases its trim size maximum to 12″ x 12″ for custom paperback and custom hardcover printing.
May 2015
- Don Leeper receives the 2015 Pat Bell Award from the Midwest Independent Publishing Association.
March 2015
- Bookmobile celebrates 33 years and Don Leeper’s Blog post about Bookmobile’s history becomes our most popular Blog post yet!
February 2015
- Bookmobile offers die cut covers.
November 2014
- Bookmobile starts to manage production for Coffee House Press.
August 2014
- Bookmobile launches new logo, brand, website, and tag line, “Craft digital.”
November 2013
- Bookmobile begins transferring all black and white printing to Océ VarioPrint 6320s.
November 2012
- Bookmobile installs new foil stamper, which allows production of large-area foil stamps for hardcovers and paperbacks, and embossing or debossing dust jackets and paperback covers.
June 2012
- Bookmobile partners with Ware-Pak to provide Automatic Print Replenishment to clients.
- Read about Bookmobile’s most successful client, Barcelona Publishers, here.
April 2012
- Bookmobile’s first website goes live for CarTech Books.
- Read about our solution for CarTech here.
August 2011
- Bookmobile’s first ACS4 (Adobe Content Server 4) client goes live to sell Digital Rights Management-protected eBooks from their website.
- Bookmobile is a licensed ACS4 provider. ACS4 gives publishers the option of Direct-to-Consumer sales of eBooks from their own website, with copy-protection provided.
August 2010
- Bookmobile’s first app for Hazelden goes live.
- Bookmobile distributes Hazelden’s apps.
- Read about one of Hazelden’s most innovative and successful apps, Field Guide to Life.
- Bookmobile develops the Bookslinger app for Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.
November 2009
- Bookmobile launches D2C Automatic Print Replenishment for OR Books. OR Books sells D2C exclusively, to bookstores on a nonreturnable basis, and to Amazon as a third-party vendor.
October 2009
- Bookmobile prints book 4,000,001.
June 2009
- Bookmobile launches true Print-on-Demand services for University of Minnesota Press.
June 2008
- Bookmobile launches eBook conversion and distribution services.
April 2008
- Bookmobile CEO Don Leeper receives Kay Sexton Award in recognition of his long-standing dedication and outstanding work in fostering books, reading, and literary activity in Minnesota.
April 2007
- Bookmobile prints book 2,000,001.
November 2005
- Bookmobile prints book 1,000,001
- Bookmobile introduces hardcover binding line.
April 2005
- Bookmobile begins distribution operation, Itasca Books.
December 1996
- Bookmobile launches digital book printing operation.
January 1984
- Bookmobile begins acting as a print agent for literary and scholarly publishers.
March 1982
- Bookmobile founded as Stanton Publication Services to provide composition for university presses.