by Don Leeper | Feb 1, 2016 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Opinion
The Next Big Tech Thing is virtual reality (VR) along with its technical sibling, augmented reality (AR). The New York Times, Google, Apple, Facebook and others are plunging in big time. Over $1 billion was invested in 2015 alone to gain a foothold in what is...
by Nicole Baxter | Dec 14, 2015 | Book Production
Along with custom book printing, we also print bound galleys, or as some folks call them, ARCs (advanced reader copies). We work with over 1,000 publishers at Bookmobile, and it really seems like each of our clients prints their bound galleys a little different from...
by Don Leeper | Dec 9, 2015 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, 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...
by Don Leeper | Dec 4, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Print Positive
Once in a while one finds emanating from the noosphere something novel, as opposed to the daily atrocity or 99-cent sale. This week it was the debut of the PaperLab, a machine from Seiko Epson that makes new paper out of recycled paper in your office, or,...
by Nicole Baxter | Nov 30, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Publisher Case Studies
Mini comics are a fun example of the range of art books we print at Bookmobile. The custom paperbacks we produce are a natural fit for printing mini comics and graphic novels as well—unlike other book printers, we can successful perfect-bind as few as 16 pages,...
by Don Leeper | Oct 22, 2015 | Book Production, Print Positive
There are three different categories of printable images: full color, line art black-and-white, and continuous tone black-and-white. I’ve covered full color image preparation in a series of posts starting here, and preparing continuous tone black-and-white...
