by Don Leeper | May 11, 2016 | Book Distribution, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Norton Stillman has been a keystone of the book business in Minnesota for fifty-four years. In 1962 he started The Bookmen with his cousin Ned Waldman. The Bookmen became the major book wholesaler in the Upper Midwest, as well as supplying customers nationally. Later...
by Don Leeper | Apr 18, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter
Apple has stopped offering photo book printing from Aperture, it’s end-of-lifed professional photo app for OS X. The good news is you can still print Aperture custom photo books through Bookmobile. Here’s how. I’m assuming you already know how to...
by Don Leeper | Apr 18, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter
Making a Photo Book in Apple Aperture Despite the fact that Apple has ceased development of it’s pro photo application Aperture lots of photographers still use it. In fact, we’ve gotten a flurry of inquiries recently about printing photo books from...
by Don Leeper | Apr 8, 2016 | Book Distribution, Opinion, Publisher Case Studies
The Bookmobile folks are not the only book people at 5120 Cedar Lake Road. Abraham and Associates, Stu Abraham’s well-known commission sales group, and Nodin Press, a long-time regional and literary publisher run by Norton Stillman, both office here as well. I...
by Don Leeper | Mar 7, 2016 | Book Distribution, Opinion, Print Positive
The book business is baroque in its complexity. Traditional publishers sell their titles to indie bookstores, bookstore chains, and online bookstores, but they also sell to wholesalers, who in turn sell to—guess who—indie bookstores, bookstore chains, and online...
