by Don Leeper | Oct 29, 2015 | Dropship and Distribution, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
If you’re a small publisher or a self-publisher, you’ve got multiple options to create and sell eBooks. Though Amazon is the 900-pound gorilla in the eBook world, a lot of eBooks get sold through other channels. Here’s a snapshot of...
by Don Leeper | Oct 22, 2015 | Book Production, Print Positive
There are three different categories of printable images: full color, line art black-and-white, and continuous tone black-and-white. I’ve covered full color image preparation in a series of posts starting here, and preparing continuous tone black-and-white...
by Don Leeper | Oct 8, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production
But how was it made? Inside the world’s oldest multicolor printed book Seeing this headline on CNN, I had to read the article! Titled Shi zhu zhai shu hua pu, the book was printed in China in the early 17th century, and it gives instruction in the arts of...
by Don Leeper | Oct 1, 2015 | Opinion, Print Positive
Since the launch of the Kindle, I’ve read eBooks on Kindle, iBooks, Kobo and and Nook—an average of one a week since the first week of December 2007. That’s a lot, and there’s a reason: eBooks are great for certain kinds of reading. I...
by Don Leeper | Sep 23, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Print Positive
Nicole Baxter and I attended the NY Art Book Fair last week to see its amazing congregation of 370 creators and purveyors of all manner of printed art: from mimeographed radical zines to precious objets d’art ensconced in glass cases and hovered over by jaded...
