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...
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...
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...
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, and...
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 business...
Nicole and I attended the recent College Art Association conference in Washington D.C., where we had a table in the exhibit area displaying some of the awesome art books published by our clients and printed by us. More than once, a conference attendee approached our...
