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...
by Nicole Baxter | May 14, 2015 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Here at Bookmobile, it’s not only the season for printing bound galleys and ARCs (Advanced Reading Copies) for BookExpo, but it’s also the season for printing yearbooks, student literary journals, and theses as well. Yes, we’re printing...
by Don Leeper | May 11, 2015 | Book Production, Opinion
At Bookmobile, we’ve been concerned for a long time that the energy we use to make your books comes from clean sources, and we have been frustrated that we have not been able to do that consistently. But there is really good clean energy news on the...
by bookmobile_admin | May 8, 2015 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Perilous adventures in the North Woods, lost Norman Rockwell paintings, life on a rural midwestern farm—we’ve converted all of these historical stories from print to eBook! We emphasize craft digital here at Bookmobile, and that includes our...
by Don Leeper | Mar 18, 2015 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Print Positive
On the occasion of Bookmobile’s thirty-third birthday, our social media maven Nicole Baxter asked me to write up our Origin Story. As I am saving extensive fact checking, memory checking, and actual research for the multi-volume hardcover edition, I guarantee...
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 19, 2015 | Book Production
Every now and then someone surprises me and asks if Bookmobile’s book printing and book binding is archival quality. The answer is YES! Our paper is acid free. We print for university presses. We print for museums. We print books about the...