by Nicole Baxter | Jan 22, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
The Baby as Art Workbook is one of the most gorgeous and cutest photo books Bookmobile has ever printed—let’s just get that out of the way first. Comprised of photos of newborns in beautiful settings by professional photographers, it’s a fine art photo...
by Don Leeper | Jan 16, 2015 | Book Distribution, Opinion
“Webrooming” is the reverse of “showrooming.” Showrooming refers to the practice of shopping in local stores, but buying online. Webrooming, on the other hand, is researching items online but then purchasing in local stores. According to a...
by Don Leeper | Jan 15, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Print Positive
When I was a full-time book printing buyer, I sometimes had projects where the publisher couldn’t make up their mind up about print specifications. Thinking that seeing pricing on all the possible options would help, they would request that I get quotes on them...
by Don Leeper | Jan 15, 2015 | Book Production, Print Positive
Writing a request for book printing quotes is simple, but don’t just dash it off: ambiguity and missing information will result in inaccurate quotes, wasting your time. Worse, errors created by inaccurate quote requests can carry through the production process,...
by Nicole Baxter | Jan 9, 2015 | Book Distribution, Publisher Case Studies
At Bookmobile, we were first Sue Petrie’s book printer in 1994, when she was a publicist at the State University of New York (SUNY) Press. She left SUNY in 1996, but in 2012 she came back to work with Bookmobile again, when she became director of a start-up...
by Nicole Baxter | Jan 7, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
How does art book printing for sound artists work? Tristan Perich’s 0.01s: The First 1/100th Second of a 1-Bit Symphony is a perfect example. When I receive a quote request for book printing, I usually have no idea what a book is about, but I can generally tell...
by Nicole Baxter | Dec 12, 2014 | Opinion
It has been a banner year for our publisher clients! We work with over 1,000 book publishers here at Bookmobile, providing everything from book printing to typesetting to eBook conversion to order fulfillment. Here’s just a small sampling of the accolades our...
by Don Leeper | Dec 8, 2014 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Print Positive, Uncategorized
Before I was a printer myself, I spent 12 years working for publishers as a book-printing buyer. Along the way, I developed some personal rules for how to save money on book printing. Here they are, updated for today’s world in which offset printing and digital...
by Nicole Baxter | Dec 5, 2014 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
Bookmobile’s art book printing includes MFA thesis show catalog printing for studio art shows, plus catalogs for artists, galleries, and museum shows and exhibitions. We see such great artwork and ideas in these catalogs! I really look forward to paging through...
by Don Leeper | Dec 2, 2014 | Book Distribution, Opinion
Perhaps the biggest secret of great success in the digital age is to create a market ecosystem in which other participants provide great value at low prices—or better yet, for free—while you sell your stuff at high margins. This strategy is fundamental in the tech...
