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 Don Leeper | Aug 10, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Print Positive
One of the basic choices you make when publishing a fine art photography book or art book is the page format: landscape or portrait? While this is mostly an aesthetic decision, there are significant cost and durability implications: landscape books can cost more to...
by Don Leeper | Jul 22, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
A new kind of publisher, the Kickstarter creator, has discovered Bookmobile book printing and distribution services. Though we didn’t actually seek out Kickstarter projects—Kickstarter creators found us—we’re super excited about this new...
by Don Leeper | Jun 25, 2015 | Dropship and Distribution, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
Last week I showed how a tool used by traditional book publishers—the Title Profit & Loss projection—can be adapted for budgeting a Kickstarter-funded book project. I kept the example simple by assuming that the books would only be distributed as...
by Don Leeper | Jun 17, 2015 | Dropship and Distribution, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
When you are budgeting your Kickstarter book project, making an accurate budget is important. You want to set your fundraising goal at a reasonable level, but you don’t want the project to fail because you underestimate the real costs. Book publishers...
by Don Leeper | Jun 15, 2015 | Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Opinion
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” –Donald Knuth, pioneering computer scientist This quote popped up as I was searching for a new piece of software for this website. It reminded me of something else I’d read recently:...
