by Nicole Baxter | Sep 30, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Opinion
I had a great time with Don Leeper at the NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1. I went to New York with a small carry-on bag, and I left with a heavy armload of art books for which, luckily, Don had room in his suitcase. Here’s what I picked up and looked at. I...
by Don Leeper | Sep 23, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Print Positive
Nicole Baxter and I attended the NY Art Book Fair last week to see its amazing congregation of 370 creators and purveyors of all manner of printed art: from mimeographed radical zines to precious objets d’art ensconced in glass cases and hovered over by jaded...
by Don Leeper | Sep 14, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter
eBooks have grown from less than 1% of book sales in 2007 to about 20% in 2014. However, eBooks don’t sell equally well in all categories, but are concentrated in fiction—especially genre fiction. In the UK, for example, over 45% of eBook sales consist of crime,...
by Don Leeper | Sep 8, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Distribution, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter
The traditional method of publishing art and photography books is risky, full of obstacles, and expensive. But by combining crowdfunding and digital printing, you can get all the benefits of the old way, with much less risk, and conceivably even make some money! The...
by Don Leeper | Aug 31, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter, Print Positive
In the world of offset printing, the route to the highest quality black-and-white printing is pretty clear: print the images as duotones (black ink plus one or more gray inks) or as 4-color process. But what about digital printing? I wanted to know the best way to...
by Don Leeper | Aug 24, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter, Print Positive
Since there are so many options in hardcover book printing, here’s an illustrated post to show visually what the parts of the hardcover book are. Get a Printing Quote in Seconds! Book Block The book block consists of all the pages of the book attached...
