by Nicole Baxter | Sep 13, 2016 | Book Production
Besides our perfect binding and hardcover binding services, we also offer wire-o binding and plastic spiral binding. Wire-o binding or plastic spiral binding is a great choice for any book that needs to lay flat when open: coloring books, cookbooks, music books,...
by Nicole Baxter | Sep 8, 2016 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
We do a lot of children’s book printing here at Bookmobile, and one great recent example is Home at Word Up: A Story of a Bookshop in Washington Heights. Word Up is a a multilingual, general-interest, nonprofit community bookstore and arts space in New York...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 30, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter
On August 18, 2016, Kickstarter announced that $100 million has been pledged to Kickstarter publishing projects—to authors, publishers, bookstores, poets, podcasters, and more. From what we’ve seen at Bookmobile, I believe it. Congratulations to Kickstarter and...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 17, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production
At Bookmobile, we offer short run hardcover book printing with options. Unlike other short run printers, we offer choices like odd trim sizes, printed end sheets, large-area foil stamps, and more. And unlike offset printers, we can offer many of these options on a run...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 10, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
Here at Bookmobile, we’ve been printing a lot of custom coloring books. Just this week we shipped out Color Me Drone Warfare! by The Cluster Project, a web gallery and blog that “uses multimedia artworks to explore weapons, war, civilian casualties, and pop...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 27, 2016 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
South Dakota Review, from The University of South Dakota, is a new literary magazine printing client for Bookmobile. The South Dakota Review is a quarterly print journal publishing fiction, poetry, essays, literary reviews, and translations. Since 1963, the South...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 22, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter, Publisher Case Studies
Webb: The Big Race is the latest graphic novel printing we’ve done for a Kickstarter client. Created by Mike Cucka, John Salimbene, and Brad Gorby, Webb is the story a stock car racer (named Webb) fighting a corporation who pushes consumerism. As Webb says,...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 24, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter, Publisher Case Studies
This is definitely the first unboxing video that features a Bookmobile book! We print quite a few Kickstarter books, and we’ve seen social media shares of photos of proofs, boxes of books, and books out in the world, but seeing our books unpacked on...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 21, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Publisher Case Studies
To be clear, Bookmobile does NOT produce true, one-at-a-time, Print-on-Demand photo books. But our minimum run is 25 copies, and really, why would you just want one copy of your fine art photo book? Why put an art book (or any book for that matter) through a POD...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 15, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
A Bestiary by Lily Hong, published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, is a great example of the breadth of options available with Bookmobile’s short-run digital book printing. Not many—if any—other short-run printers can do a 30″-square gold...