by Nicole Baxter | Jul 27, 2016 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
South Dakota Review, from The University of South Dakota, is a new literary magazine printing client for Bookmobile. The South Dakota Review is a quarterly print journal publishing fiction, poetry, essays, literary reviews, and translations. Since 1963,...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 22, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Publisher Case Studies
Webb: The Big Race is the latest graphic novel printing we’ve done for a Kickstarter client. Created by Mike Cucka, John Salimbene, and Brad Gorby, Webb is the story a stock car racer (named Webb) fighting a corporation who pushes consumerism. As...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 24, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Publisher Case Studies
This is definitely the first unboxing video that features a Bookmobile book! We print quite a few Kickstarter books, and we’ve seen social media shares of photos of proofs, boxes of books, and books out in the world, but seeing our books unpacked on...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 21, 2016 | Art Book Printing
To be clear, Bookmobile does NOT produce true, one-at-a-time, Print-on-Demand photo books. But our minimum run is 25 copies, and really, why would you just want one copy of your fine art photo book? Why put an art book (or any book for that matter) through a POD...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 15, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
A Bestiary by Lily Hong, published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, is a great example of the breadth of options available with Bookmobile’s short-run digital book printing. Not many—if any—other short-run printers...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 7, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production
I think it’s a natural fit that Bookmobile, a digital short run book printing company, is printing books for MakerBot, the purveyor of 3D digital printers. Here at Bookmobile, we’ve often wondered if and how we could use a MakerBot. The 3D-printed...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 2, 2016 | Art Book Printing
What’s the right book paper for your book printing? It’s a common question, and it’s not easy to answer. It really depends on each publisher or artist’s preference, and there’s obviously a lot of variation in design and style from...
by Nicole Baxter | May 26, 2016 | Art Book Printing
Here at Bookmobile, we’ve been doing more and more artists book printing, and one that we recently produced is Westside Makers. It’s a very cool publication created by the resident makers of Covington, which is in northern Kentucky. Covington is a...
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 | May 3, 2016 | Art Book Printing
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...
