by Nicole Baxter | May 18, 2017 | Book Production
This short shows about nine hours of book binding in our book bindery, sped up and condensed to just 50 seconds. (Though the production manager would love it if folks could work this fast.) We filmed on Monday, May 15th, from about 6:00 AM to...
by Nicole Baxter | May 10, 2017 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution
The term “softcover book printing” makes sense. After all, it’s the opposite of a hardcover, right? However, softcover is not the term the book industry uses—the preferred term is trade paperback or mass-market paperback. So at Bookmobile,...
by Nicole Baxter | May 3, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
The custom hardcover books that we produced for Ruskerville are the first printing jobs we’ve received through Etsy Manufacturing. We produced six limited editions of Ruskerville’s weekly and daily planners, and the books are up for sale now...
by Nicole Baxter | Apr 20, 2017 | Art Book Printing
We’ve printed three issues of the photography magazine MATTE. The editor Matthew Leifheit began printing MATTE with MagCloud but then found Bookmobile’s photography magazine printing to be a much better fit for quality and...
by Nicole Baxter | Apr 14, 2017 | Book Production
When you think of a chapbook, you might think of a stack of 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheets of paper folded in half and stapled, maybe with a color cover. But that’s not the kind of chapbook printing we do at Bookmobile! Our ability to durably bind as...