by Nicole Baxter | Aug 17, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Coffee House Press had a good problem: their hardcover book Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash was receiving excellent reviews and selling fast. Their first run was printed offset, and an offset reprint was underway, but due to the offset printer’s long...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 28, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Royal Art Books is a new client for Bookmobile—and our first tattoo publisher! This past month we’ve printed, bound, and shipped out two titles, Yours truly, Milt Zeis, which is a new hardcover title, and a reprint of the Percy Walters Catalog,...
by Nicole Baxter | May 26, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
University of Toronto Press is one of our favorite and most stalwart publishers. One of the largest university presses in North America, UTP has been a small run book printing client of Bookmobile since 2008 and has printed over 950 titles with us (multiple...
by Nicole Baxter | May 18, 2017 | Book Production
This short shows about nine hours of book binding in our book bindery, sped up and condensed to just 50 seconds. (Though the production manager would love it if folks could work this fast.) We filmed on Monday, May 15th, from about 6:00 AM to...
by Nicole Baxter | May 10, 2017 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution
The term “softcover book printing” makes sense. After all, it’s the opposite of a hardcover, right? However, softcover is not the term the book industry uses—the preferred term is trade paperback or mass-market paperback. So at Bookmobile,...
by Nicole Baxter | May 3, 2017 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
The custom hardcover books that we produced for Ruskerville are the first printing jobs we’ve received through Etsy Manufacturing. We produced six limited editions of Ruskerville’s weekly and daily planners, and the books are up for sale now...