by Nicole Baxter | May 26, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
University of Toronto Press is one of our favorite and most stalwart publishers. One of the largest university presses in North America, UTP has been a small run book printing client of Bookmobile since 2008 and has printed over 950 titles with us (multiple times, of...
by Nicole Baxter | May 18, 2017 | Book Production
This short shows about nine hours of book binding in our book bindery, sped up and condensed to just 50 seconds. (Though the production manager would love it if folks could work this fast.) We filmed on Monday, May 15th, from about 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM, and on that day,...
by Nicole Baxter | May 10, 2017 | Book Distribution, Book Production
The term “softcover book printing” makes sense. After all, it’s the opposite of a hardcover, right? However, softcover is not the term the book industry uses—the preferred term is trade paperback or mass-market paperback. So at Bookmobile,...
by Nicole Baxter | May 3, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
The custom hardcover books that we produced for Ruskerville are the first printing jobs we’ve received through Etsy Manufacturing. We produced six limited editions of Ruskerville’s weekly and daily planners, and the books are up for sale now (on Etsy, of...
by Nicole Baxter | Apr 20, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Fine Art Photo Books, Publisher Case Studies
We’ve printed three issues of the photography magazine MATTE. The editor Matthew Leifheit began printing MATTE with MagCloud but then found Bookmobile’s photography magazine printing to be a much better fit for quality and options. MATTE Photography...
by Nicole Baxter | Apr 14, 2017 | Book Production
When you think of a chapbook, you might think of a stack of 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheets of paper folded in half and stapled, maybe with a color cover. But that’s not the kind of chapbook printing we do at Bookmobile! Our ability to durably bind as few as 16...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 29, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
The Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey has two exhibitions focusing on Matisse and American artists that are running until June 18: Matisse and American Art and Janet Taylor Pickett: The Matisse Series. Bookmobile bound both exhibition catalog printings, the first...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 17, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
We’ve done two print runs for BOUNTY in the last five months, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a third order is soon to come—it’s a gorgeous book! It’s also a great example of the flexibility of short run book printing and binding for managing...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 10, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
The Luminarts Legacy Society is made up of patrons who support the Luminarts Cultural Foundation, and it’s also the title of a hardcover book with a translucent dust jacket we recently printed. The foundation published the hardcover to thank its founding...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 3, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
The Pinch Literary Journal, from The University of Memphis, is a new literary magazine printing client for Bookmobile. The Pinch is a biannual print journal that publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art, produced by the students of the University of...
