I love that we are doing more and more art book printing at Bookmobile—it is always fun to open the print files and see what the artist’s work and the book layout look like. In addition to exhibition catalogs, we’ve been doing a lot of portfolio...
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...
Before I was a printer myself, I spent 12 years working for publishers as a book-printing buyer. Along the way, I developed some personal rules for how to save money on book printing. Here they are, updated for today’s world in which offset printing and...
Independent book publishers often find it difficult to get cost-effective distribution services. Publishing one book through a self-publishing service may make sense, but when you become a real publisher with multiple titles, that service is not a good fit. At the...
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...
When it comes to printing, book publishers are always looking for the best mix of low cost, good quality, and optimized supply. Once, they had only one printing model to work with: long runs printed on offset presses. Now, they have three more models to help...
