by Don Leeper | Feb 25, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter, Print Positive
I recently discovered via a tweet from Ware-Pak (thank you Keith Shay!) a marvelous kind of book that gladdened my maker heart. While normal books are made up of leaves–sheets of paper–with a page front and back on each leaf, these books have leaves but no pages! They...
by Nicole Baxter | Jan 25, 2016 | Kickstarter, Publisher Case Studies
Moss: Volume One is an anthology of Northwest writing. Started as an online publication, Moss ran a Kickstarter campaign last fall in order to launch the first print issue of the journal, which is an anthology of the first three online issues. The Kickstarter Campaign...
by Nicole Baxter | Jan 11, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter, Publisher Case Studies
Hearten: True North Gatherings is a new magazine based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Started as an online publication, Hearten began a Kickstarter campaign last fall in order to launch the first print issue. Bookmobile was extremely happy to be the “trusted...
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 31, 2015 | Book Distribution, Kickstarter, Publisher Case Studies
Bookmobile works with many Kickstarter creators, and we just finished up conversion AND printing on a Kickstarter eBook and print book for Brooke Dierkhising called Many Ways to See the Sun. In addition to using Bookmobile for the book printing and eBook conversion,...
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...