by Nicole Baxter | Sep 24, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production
Bookmobile used to offer an 80-lb. natural uncoated stock and it was very popular. Poetry book publishers and art book printers counted on it to add a little more heft and thickness to a poetry book or exhibition catalog with a...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 13, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Opinion, Publisher Case Studies
Last night, my family and I attended the 2015 Internet Cat Video Festival. It was meow-velous! The phenomenon that is the Internet Cat Video Festival is now in its fourth year. If this is the first time you’ve ever heard about this international...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 24, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Dropship and Distribution
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...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 9, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Perhaps it’s obvious, but here’s a reminder: Color printing is not just for art and photography books or journals and exhibition catalogs. We print a wide range of books at Bookmobile; our high-quality color printing combined with the...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 24, 2015 | Book Production
This might be the least exciting blog post I ever write, but people always ask, so here it is: How small can bar codes be? How do you ensure they scan? Read on, and I will reveal all. First, while Bookmobile cannot supply you with the ISBN, we can create the bar...
by Don Leeper | May 26, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Print Positive
Publishers often need the physical dimensions of a book before it is actually printed: in particular, the spine width for laying out the cover and the weight of the finished book for estimating shipping costs. This post demonstrates the relatively...