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...
I love that we are doing more and more art book printing at Bookmobile—it is always fun to open the print files and see what the artist’s work and the book layout look like. In addition to exhibition catalogs, we’ve been doing a lot of portfolio book printing...
Bookmobile’s high-quality short-run art book printing services are a perfect fit for an artisan’s hardcover book printing. Andrew Dipper is a restorer and conservator of historical stringed instruments, based in Bookmobile’s hometown of Minneapolis. Andrew...
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...
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...
AnimEigo specializes in releasing subtitled Japanese anime and live-action films in the United States. Established in 1989, they’ve recently been using Kickstarter as a platform to bring even more films to the anime community. Their latest project was the Otaku...
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...
The Guild of Bookworkers is a new client for Bookmobile, and we are so pleased to be working with them! I don’t know if there’s a better compliment for us as book printers than to have an organization dedicated to the book and paper arts choose us...
One of the most common questions I get at Bookmobile is “What will the print proofs look like? Will they be bound?” Let’s break it down. Your Choices for Proofs At Bookmobile, you can choose to see no proofs, digital proofs (PDFs by FTP or Hightail),...
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...
