by Don Leeper | Aug 19, 2014 | Opinion
Amazon’s online partisans have lambasted big New York publishers for being “gatekeepers,” barring authors’ paths to the land of milk and honey. But if book publishers are doing any gatekeeping, they are doing a spectacularly bad job of it: according to Bowker,...
by Don Leeper | Aug 11, 2014 | Book Production
When we got our new Océ VarioPrint 6320 printers, we did not anticipate that their superior print quality could cause issues, but ironically that is what happened in one instance. The case in question was one where the designer used a typeface with very thin strokes....
by Don Leeper | Apr 7, 2014 | Book Production
You no doubt got involved with book publishing because you were fascinated by cardboard boxes, right? Well, when I started buying printing for book publishers—before we started printing books in-house—I discovered that cardboard boxes mattered. The books I shepherded...
by Don Leeper | Feb 12, 2014 | Book Production
A “perfector,” in printer’s parlance, is a printing press capable of printing both sides of the sheet in one pass. For book printers, this is important both for efficiency and quality. All books print both sides of the sheet, so a perfector is twice as fast as a...
