by Don Leeper | Feb 17, 2016 | Book Production, Opinion, Uncategorized
Nicole and I attended the recent College Art Association conference in Washington D.C., where we had a table in the exhibit area displaying some of the awesome art books published by our clients and printed by us. More than once, a conference attendee approached our...
by Don Leeper | Feb 17, 2016 | Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Opinion, Print Positive
Nicole and I recently attended the College Art Association conference in Washington, DC, and had lots of interest in our short-run digital book printing services. A number of questions came up again and again, and I thought it would be worthwhile to do a brief post...
by Don Leeper | Feb 1, 2016 | Book Distribution, Book Production, 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 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 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 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...
