by Nicole Baxter | Jul 24, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Dropship and Distribution
Nine months ago, I wrote Twenty-One Ways to Embellish Your Print Books. Thanks to the new capabilities we have here at Bookmobile, as well as all the new work we’ve seen from our publishers since then—especially our art book printing clients and...
by Don Leeper | Jul 22, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
A new kind of publisher, the Kickstarter creator, has discovered Bookmobile book printing and distribution services. Though we didn’t actually seek out Kickstarter projects—Kickstarter creators found us—we’re super excited about this new...
by Don Leeper | Jul 13, 2015 | Print Positive
How do you estimate your page count? A castoff. A page count estimate created before a book is actually designed is called a castoff. “Estimate” is the operative term here; castoff page counts are only estimates and will almost certainly vary from the...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 9, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Perhaps it’s obvious, but here’s a reminder: Color printing is not just for art and photography books or journals and exhibition catalogs. We print a wide range of books at Bookmobile; our high-quality color printing combined with the...
by Don Leeper | Jul 6, 2015 | Print Positive
Sometimes the page size of a book must be scaled down after the pages have already been laid out, usually for cost reasons. This post discusses the ramifications of doing so, and introduces two new Bookmobile online calculators. Reasons for Resizing a Book...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 1, 2015 | Publisher Case Studies
I’m stepping away from blogging about art book printing this week to highlight one of our many publishers who primarily print black-ink-only paperbacks. While art book printing is a growing portion of what we do at Bookmobile, black-and-white paperbacks are...
by Don Leeper | Jun 29, 2015 | Print Positive
With the expanding number of art and photography books we’ve been printing, we were a little frustrated by our maximum page size of 11-5/8″ x 11-5/8″. Our clients want to print large books! Since that maximum was set, we’ve had lots of...
by Don Leeper | Jun 25, 2015 | Dropship and Distribution, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
Last week I showed how a tool used by traditional book publishers—the Title Profit & Loss projection—can be adapted for budgeting a Kickstarter-funded book project. I kept the example simple by assuming that the books would only be distributed as...
by Nicole Baxter | Jun 24, 2015 | Book Production
This might be the least exciting blog post I ever write, but people always ask, so here it is: How small can bar codes be? How do you ensure they scan? Read on, and I will reveal all. First, while Bookmobile cannot supply you with the ISBN, we can create the bar...
by Don Leeper | Jun 17, 2015 | Dropship and Distribution, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
When you are budgeting your Kickstarter book project, making an accurate budget is important. You want to set your fundraising goal at a reasonable level, but you don’t want the project to fail because you underestimate the real costs. Book publishers...
