by Nicole Baxter | Dec 5, 2024 | Opinion
All the books we produce at Bookmobile get the same care, attention, quality checks, and schedule. As well as the books we store, sell, and distribute at Itasca Books! As book lovers and print enthusiasts, we all browse the books we’re printing and/or...
by Nicole Baxter | Apr 11, 2019 | Book Production, Opinion, Print Positive
Considering book publishing and book printing? I recently did an interview with the entrepreneur and author Dave Farrow as part of his Brains Behind It series. Dave covers many topics, from America’s education system, to succeeding as a poet, to the downsides of...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 5, 2018 | Opinion
My favorite festival is fast approaching: the Twin Cities Book Festival (TCBF), on October 13, at the Progress Center on the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Thanks to the hard work of its host Rain Taxi, the festival is in its 18th year. The extremely vibrant literary...
by Don Leeper | Apr 8, 2016 | Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Publisher Case Studies
The Bookmobile folks are not the only book people at 5120 Cedar Lake Road. Abraham and Associates, Stu Abraham’s well-known commission sales group, and Nodin Press, a long-time regional and literary publisher run by Norton Stillman, both office here as well. I...
by Don Leeper | Mar 7, 2016 | Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Print Positive
The book business is baroque in its complexity. Traditional publishers sell their titles to indie bookstores, bookstore chains, and online bookstores, but they also sell to wholesalers, who in turn sell to—guess who—indie bookstores, bookstore chains,...
by Don Leeper | Mar 2, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Print Positive
In a recent post, Mike Shatzkin argued that book publishers ought to face up to the necessity of “standardization.” But what would actually be gained–and what lost? I’ve heard this argument before, usually from smart people in the book...
