by Don Leeper | Feb 22, 2016 | Book Distribution, Book Production, Print Positive
At a recent conference, we displayed our wares—beautiful printed art books—while across the aisle from us, Yale University Press displayed their beautiful printed art books (though in a much larger booth!). To anyone not in the book business, this is a confusing...
by Don Leeper | Feb 17, 2016 | Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Opinion, Print Positive
Nicole and I recently attended the College Art Association conference in Washington, DC, and had lots of interest in our short-run digital book printing services. A number of questions came up again and again, and I thought it would be worthwhile to do a brief post...
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 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...
by Don Leeper | Dec 4, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Print Positive
Once in a while one finds emanating from the noosphere something novel, as opposed to the daily atrocity or 99-cent sale. This week it was the debut of the PaperLab, a machine from Seiko Epson that makes new paper out of recycled paper in your office, or, presumably,...
by Don Leeper | Oct 22, 2015 | Book Production, Print Positive
There are three different categories of printable images: full color, line art black-and-white, and continuous tone black-and-white. I’ve covered full color image preparation in a series of posts starting here, and preparing continuous tone black-and-white...
