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Itasca Books Distribution Services Offers Advantages for Independent Book Publishers

Itasca Books Distribution Services Offers Advantages for Independent Book Publishers

by Don Leeper | Nov 24, 2014 | Art Book Printing, Uncategorized

Independent book publishers often find it difficult to get cost-effective distribution services. Publishing one book through a self-publishing service may make sense, but when you become a real publisher with multiple titles, that service is not a good fit. At the...
Direct-to-Consumer Sales as a Core Book Publishing Business Model

Direct-to-Consumer Sales as a Core Book Publishing Business Model

by Don Leeper | Nov 18, 2014 | Book Distribution, Publisher Case Studies

Once upon a time, selling directly to consumers was a rarity in the book publishing business. Now, publishers of all types are doing it, or planning to. This trend has been enabled by the web and complemented by publishers’ parallel social media strategies. It...
Why Yes, We DO We Print Literary Journals and Magazines

Why Yes, We DO We Print Literary Journals and Magazines

by Nicole Baxter | Nov 13, 2014 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies

At Bookmobile, of course we print books, but we also print literary, art, and scholarly journals and magazines . . . . . . for undergraduate and MFA programs, writing programs, literary presses, university presses, associations, etc. Bookmobile provides the...

Print Positive:
How to Prevent Book Printing Disasters

by Don Leeper | Nov 10, 2014 | Book Production, Print Positive

Got a rush title? Last minute changes threatening the schedule? Tempted to rush the proof checking, skip reviewing the order confirmation? Think again: proofs and print run documents are the thin shields between receiving perfect books and receiving books that are...
Art Book Printing Deserves Better than Print-on-Demand

Art Book Printing Deserves Better than Print-on-Demand

by Nicole Baxter | Nov 6, 2014 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies

Museums, galleries, and artists, like traditional book publishers, are also juggling unit costs, inventory, and production management when printing their art books. While it may seem that Print-on-Demand (POD) is their only option for producing books that don’t...
Print Positive:Sizing A Dust Jacket So It Fits the Way You Want

Print Positive:
Sizing A Dust Jacket So It Fits the Way You Want

by Don Leeper | Nov 4, 2014 | Book Production, Print Positive

Dust jackets are the most difficult book components to size. Simple seeming, they are actually complex three-dimensional objects once they are wrapped on a book. A poorly fitting dust jacket is immediately obvious and is guaranteed to create that sinking...
Twenty-One Ways to Customize Paperbacks and Hardcovers

Twenty-One Ways to Customize Paperbacks and Hardcovers

by Nicole Baxter | Oct 30, 2014 | Art Book Printing, Book Production

Bookmobile Offers Many Options to Customize Paperbacks and Hardcovers When readers buy print books, it’s not always for the content. A book can also be a tactile experience, an aesthetic experience, even an olfactory experience. (Do you sniff your books? My...
Print Positive:Sizing Your Paperback Cover So It Prints the Way You Want

Print Positive:
Sizing Your Paperback Cover So It Prints the Way You Want

by Don Leeper | Oct 27, 2014 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Print Positive

Though printed as a flat sheet, a paperback cover becomes a three dimensional object when it’s bound to the book. While digital and offset presses print with extreme positional accuracy on the order of 1/1,000″, binding and trimming machines typically have...
The Cheap eBook: A Dagger at the Heart of Publishing

The Cheap eBook: A Dagger at the Heart of Publishing

by Don Leeper | Oct 20, 2014 | Opinion, Uncategorized

What is the true cost of publishing an eBook? Among all the disputation about eBook selling prices, one major misconception persists: that because the reproduction cost of eBooks is very low, then the cost to the publisher is low, and therefore the selling price of an...
The Cheap eBook: A Dagger at the Heart of Publishing

Print Positive:
POD, ARP, SRDP, or Offset? Which Print Model to Use, and When

by Don Leeper | Oct 15, 2014 | Book Production, Print Positive, Uncategorized

When it comes to printing, book publishers are always looking for the best mix of low cost, good quality, and optimized supply. Once, they had only one printing model to work with: long runs printed on offset presses. Now, they have three more models to help achieve...
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