by Don Leeper | Mar 7, 2016 | Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Print Positive
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,...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 7, 2016 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
We’ve been printing and binding splits runs for The American Poetry Review’s annual Honickman First Book Prize since 2006. The American Poetry Review is the most widely circulated poetry magazine in the United States, and is dedicated to...
by Don Leeper | Mar 2, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Print Positive
In a recent post, Mike Shatzkin argued that book publishers ought to face up to the necessity of “standardization.” But what would actually be gained–and what lost? I’ve heard this argument before, usually from smart people in the book...
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 29, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Action Books is our featured publisher this week. As quoted in Entropy’s Best of 2015: Presses, Magazines, Publishers and Journals, Blake Butler from VICEMagazine says: “Action Books has been filling a gap in American publishing by translating...
by Don Leeper | Feb 25, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Print Positive
I recently discovered via a tweet from Ware-Pak (thank you Keith Shay!) a marvelous kind of book that gladdened my maker heart. While normal books are made up of leaves–sheets of paper–with a page front and back on each leaf, these books have leaves but...
by Don Leeper | Feb 22, 2016 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Print Positive
At a recent conference, we displayed our wares—beautiful printed art books—while across the aisle from us, Yale University Press displayed their beautiful printed art books (though in a much larger booth!). To anyone not in the book business, this...
by Don Leeper | Feb 17, 2016 | Book Production, Opinion
Nicole and I attended the recent College Art Association conference in Washington D.C., where we had a table in the exhibit area displaying some of the awesome art books published by our clients and printed by us. More than once, a conference attendee approached our...
by Don Leeper | Feb 17, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Opinion, Print Positive
Nicole and I recently attended the College Art Association conference in Washington, DC, and had lots of interest in our short-run digital book printing services. A number of questions came up again and again, and I thought it would be worthwhile to do a brief post...
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 16, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
A Field Guide to Office Plants is a delightful art book that we printed recently, by the artist Christina Kelly. It’s the story of an office worker who gets so bored that she starts researching her company’s neglected plant: a Sansevieria....
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 8, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
Last Fall we did a short-run printing of the second volume of Lunar Insurrection, and I became fascinated by this journal. It includes incredible artwork, and the themes of the two volumes they’ve published (and we’ve printed) are, so far, truly out...
