by Don Leeper | Mar 18, 2015 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Print Positive
On the occasion of Bookmobile’s thirty-third birthday, our social media maven Nicole Baxter asked me to write up our Origin Story. As I am saving extensive fact checking, memory checking, and actual research for the multi-volume hardcover edition, I guarantee...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 16, 2015 | Opinion
We love printing books here at Bookmobile so much so that we even do it in our spare time. And why wouldn’t we? We are in Minneapolis, one of the most literary cities in the country. Besides all the super presses like Coffee House Press, Graywolf Press,...
by Don Leeper | Jan 16, 2015 | Dropship and Distribution, Opinion
“Webrooming” is the reverse of “showrooming.” Showrooming refers to the practice of shopping in local stores, but buying online. Webrooming, on the other hand, is researching items online but then purchasing in local stores. According to a...
by Nicole Baxter | Dec 12, 2014 | Opinion
It has been a banner year for our publisher clients! We work with over 1,000 book publishers here at Bookmobile, providing everything from book printing to typesetting to eBook conversion to order fulfillment. Here’s just a small sampling of the...
by Don Leeper | Dec 2, 2014 | Dropship and Distribution, Opinion
Perhaps the biggest secret of great success in the digital age is to create a market ecosystem in which other participants provide great value at low prices—or better yet, for free—while you sell your stuff at high margins. This strategy is...
by Don Leeper | Oct 20, 2014 | Opinion
What is the true cost of publishing an eBook? Among all the disputation about eBook selling prices, one major misconception persists: that because the reproduction cost of eBooks is very low, then the cost to the publisher is low, and therefore the selling price of an...
