Unlike other short-run book printers, Bookmobile can produce nonstandard trim sizes, including a square or landscape photo book. We won’t squeeze your photography into a standard trim size like 11″ x 8-1/2″. We can do any trim size from 3″ x 4″ all the way up to 12″ x 12″—and yes, that’s portrait or landscape.
Square Photo Books
Featured above is Connected, by the photographer Amy Lombard. It’s a 6″ x 6″ hardcover with a printed case and printed end sheets. The small square trim size is perfectly suited to feature her Instagram and VSCO images.
HOME LESS, by the photographer Alfred Brown IV, is a 9″ x 9″ hardcover with a linen case, black foil stamps, and an inset cover image. Alfred’s medium format film photography also befits a square format.
Deadstock, by the photographer Chanel Von Habsburg-Lothringen and published by Maga Books, is a paperback at our largest square trim size possible: 12″ x 12″.
Landscape Photo Books
Dismantling Stereotypes, by Karima White, is a paperback at 10″ x 8″. Karima made terrific use of the size in her cover design! She also chose our 4-color print process to reproduce her black-and-white photography. You can read more about printing black-and-white photography at Bookmobile here.
Lost is a poetry and photography book by Kirby Bryce, and it’s a 12″ x 9″ landscape hardcover with a printed case.
Why Bookmobile for printing photography books?
In short, our short-run print quality is excellent, our pricing is affordable, and we offer many options. Customize with a fold-out insert, translucent vellum insert, foil stamping on a paperback cover, and more. Do browse our Gallery to see the full breadth of what we offer!
Bookmobile can perfect-bind as few as 16 pages, and we offer PUR binding for a durable bind for coated interior stocks. And with a minimum run quantity of just 25 copies, photographers can print short runs and order reprints as needed—which means no worries about storing inventory or cash flow complications.