by Don Leeper | May 11, 2016 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Publisher Case Studies
Norton Stillman has been a keystone of the book business in Minnesota for fifty-four years. In 1962 he started The Bookmen with his cousin Ned Waldman. The Bookmen became the major book wholesaler in the Upper Midwest, as well as supplying...
by Nicole Baxter | Apr 13, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Publisher Case Studies
AnimEigo specializes in releasing subtitled Japanese anime and live-action films in the United States. Established in 1989, they’ve recently been using Kickstarter as a platform to bring even more films to the anime community. Their latest project was...
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 Nicole Baxter | Mar 7, 2016 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
We’ve been printing and binding splits runs for The American Poetry Review’s annual Honickman First Book Prize since 2006. The American Poetry Review is the most widely circulated poetry magazine in the United States, and is dedicated to...
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 29, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Action Books is our featured publisher this week. As quoted in Entropy’s Best of 2015: Presses, Magazines, Publishers and Journals, Blake Butler from VICEMagazine says: “Action Books has been filling a gap in American publishing by translating...
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 16, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
A Field Guide to Office Plants is a delightful art book that we printed recently, by the artist Christina Kelly. It’s the story of an office worker who gets so bored that she starts researching her company’s neglected plant: a Sansevieria....