by Don Leeper | Jan 7, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Distribution, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter, Print Positive
UPS and Fedex have both announced rate increases, which will “coincidentally” average 4.9% for both shippers. The USPS has announced increases averaging 9.5% across many services, however there will be no Media Mail postage increase–good news for book publishers...
by Nicole Baxter | Dec 31, 2015 | Book Distribution, Kickstarter, Publisher Case Studies
Bookmobile works with many Kickstarter creators, and we just finished up conversion AND printing on a Kickstarter eBook and print book for Brooke Dierkhising called Many Ways to See the Sun. In addition to using Bookmobile for the book printing and eBook conversion,...
by Don Leeper | Dec 9, 2015 | Book Distribution, Book Production, Kickstarter, Print Positive
In addition to printing books, Bookmobile offers book distribution through Itasca Books, and on December 1, we switched from our home-grown book distribution system to iPub, a purpose-built system for publishers and distributors. So far—fingers crossed!—it has gone...
by Don Leeper | Nov 20, 2015 | Book Distribution
Selling eBooks from your website seems like a dream business: no printing costs, no picking and packing, no postage to deal with. Plus, you’re connecting directly with readers in a way that you can’t when you sell through an intermediary like Amazon or...
by Nicole Baxter | Nov 4, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Distribution, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter
. . . and Bookmobile is pleased to be listed as a publishing resource! Bookmobile is so happy to be included on Kickstarter’s brand-new Resources page, just launched last week. Kickstarter wants all the projects they see to succeed, and they are building out...
by Don Leeper | Oct 29, 2015 | Book Distribution, Kickstarter
If you’re a small publisher or a self-publisher, you’ve got multiple options to create and sell eBooks. Though Amazon is the 900-pound gorilla in the eBook world, a lot of eBooks get sold through other channels. Here’s a snapshot of eBook retailer...