by Don Leeper | Sep 8, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Distribution, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter
The traditional method of publishing art and photography books is risky, full of obstacles, and expensive. But by combining crowdfunding and digital printing, you can get all the benefits of the old way, with much less risk, and conceivably even make some money! The...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 24, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Distribution, Book Production
Nine months ago, I wrote Twenty-One Ways to Embellish Your Print Books. Thanks to the new capabilities we have here at Bookmobile, as well as all the new work we’ve seen from our publishers since then—especially our art book printing clients and our literary...
by Don Leeper | Jul 22, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Distribution, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter
A new kind of publisher, the Kickstarter creator, has discovered Bookmobile book printing and distribution services. Though we didn’t actually seek out Kickstarter projects—Kickstarter creators found us—we’re super excited about this new way of publishing,...
by Don Leeper | Jun 25, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Distribution, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter
Last week I showed how a tool used by traditional book publishers—the Title Profit & Loss projection—can be adapted for budgeting a Kickstarter-funded book project. I kept the example simple by assuming that the books would only be distributed as rewards for...
by Nicole Baxter | Apr 23, 2015 | Book Distribution, Publisher Case Studies
Congratulations to Bernadette Mayer, the author of Sonnets, and to Tender Buttons Press! Mayer is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow and a Firecracker Award Nominee, and we are delighted to see Tender Buttons’ success. Tender Buttons is a new client for Bookmobile’s...
by Don Leeper | Apr 21, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Distribution, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Publisher Case Studies
The folks at The Luminous Landscape have published two great articles by Irish photographer Peter Cox on his experience publishing two books of his landscape photography funded via Kickstarter. Cox goes into detail on how and why he chose to fund through Kickstarter,...