by Nicole Baxter | Oct 13, 2017 | Art Book Printing
En Route to Find an Armchair is the second custom art book we’ve produced for Lindsay Buchman. Lindsay is an interdisciplinary artist in Philadelphia whose practice, as her website describes, “explores print media, photography, video, installation, and...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 6, 2017 | Book Production
Questions about a book page count are frequent at Bookmobile—how do you estimate the page count in a manuscript? What counts as a page? And does it need to be divisible by 8, 16, or 32? Read on to learn the scintillating answers to these questions! How Do I Estimate...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 2, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
The photo above is from early August, when the artist Ken Avidor biked to Minneapolis from St. Paul to pick up the hardcover copies of his comic printing, Bicyclopolis: A Tale of Human-Powered Time Travel. Our shipping department (Eric, Chris S., and Chris F.) are...
by Nicole Baxter | Sep 25, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Bookmobile has been printing short runs for Button Poetry the last two years, and earlier this year we began to do eBook conversions for them as well. Button Poetry is a Minneapolis-based organization that started publishing books in 2013, and has experienced...
by Nicole Baxter | Sep 14, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
It was only a matter of time until someone combined cats on the internet with a Kickstarter coloring book printing, and the end result is predictably wonderful: #EGGSBFF Adult Coloring Book by the artist Jimiyo. Jimiyo is a successful self-employed artist whose cat,...
by Nicole Baxter | Sep 1, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter
This video shows just some of the steps that go into the making of our short-run hardcovers. Bonus: The soundtrack is our own Bindery Supervisor, Tony Houle, and his band! Short Run Hardcovers Bookmobile offers superior quality short-run hardcover binding. Books are...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 23, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
We’ve been working with The University of Arkansas Press for over ten years, and just last week Rachel Holscher and I flew down to Fayetteville to pay them a visit. The University of Arkansas Press has said we’re their book printer of choice, so we had to!...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 17, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Coffee House Press had a good problem: their hardcover book Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash was receiving excellent reviews and selling fast. Their first run was printed offset, and an offset reprint was underway, but due to the offset printer’s long turnaround...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 28, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Royal Art Books is a new client for Bookmobile—and our first tattoo publisher! This past month we’ve printed, bound, and shipped out two titles, Yours truly, Milt Zeis, which is a new hardcover title, and a reprint of the Percy Walters Catalog, another hardcover...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 29, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter, Publisher Case Studies
Have you ever thought to create your own print coloring book ? Today I Draw Dragons, illustrated by Shelly Loke, is a great demonstration of how to pull off a high-quality, successful coloring book—with the help of a Kickstarter. The Print Coloring Book and the PDFs...
