by Don Leeper | Sep 23, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Print Positive
Nicole Baxter and I attended the NY Art Book Fair last week to see its amazing congregation of 370 creators and purveyors of all manner of printed art: from mimeographed radical zines to precious objets d’art ensconced in glass cases and hovered over by jaded...
by Don Leeper | Sep 14, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
eBooks have grown from less than 1% of book sales in 2007 to about 20% in 2014. However, eBooks don’t sell equally well in all categories, but are concentrated in fiction—especially genre fiction. In the UK, for example, over 45% of eBook sales...
by Don Leeper | Sep 8, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Dropship and Distribution, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
The traditional method of publishing art and photography books is risky, full of obstacles, and expensive. But by combining crowdfunding and digital printing, you can get all the benefits of the old way, with much less risk, and conceivably even make some money! The...
by Don Leeper | Aug 24, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Print Positive
Since there are so many options in hardcover book printing, here’s an illustrated post to show visually what the parts of the hardcover book are. Get a Printing Quote in Seconds! Book Block The book block consists of all the pages of the book attached...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 13, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Opinion, Publisher Case Studies
Last night, my family and I attended the 2015 Internet Cat Video Festival. It was meow-velous! The phenomenon that is the Internet Cat Video Festival is now in its fourth year. If this is the first time you’ve ever heard about this international...
by Don Leeper | Aug 10, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Print Positive
One of the basic choices you make when publishing a fine art photography book or art book is the page format: landscape or portrait? While this is mostly an aesthetic decision, there are significant cost and durability implications: landscape books can cost more to...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 6, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
The sculptor Will Clift is a new client for Bookmobile. Will came to us to print his exhibition catalog for the Gerald Peters Gallery in New York, New York, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. I love that we’re seeing more and more clients for art book printing...
by Don Leeper | Aug 3, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Print Positive
Why Bookmobile Added PUR Binding to Our Printing Services Standard EVA bookbinding glues do a great job on uncoated papers, but are questionable when binding really big books on coated papers. As we are getting more and more requests to print art books and fine art...
by Don Leeper | Jul 30, 2015 | Print Positive
Here at Bookmobile, we bought our first digital presses in 1996, and we are now in our sixth generation. So while offset presses can still be productive after a decade of service or more, our digital presses have had an average life span of about 3-1/2 years. The...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 28, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
We have worked with Sofawolf Press for over twelve years, printing short runs of their graphic novels, anthologies, and novels, including the Artistic Visions series, which looks at the creative process and artwork of illustrators and artists. Based in Saint...
