by Don Leeper | Sep 10, 2014 | Book Production
Film lamination is important for paperback covers and dust jackets. Books get banged around a lot en route from printer to reader (see my post on cartons). Without cover lamination, corners get bent, the printed image scuffs and cracks, and other mayhem ensues....
by Don Leeper | Sep 8, 2014 | Book Production, Print Positive
Publishing is the process of 1) transforming an author’s manuscript into a book, and 2) finding the book an audience. In the first part, publishers add value; in the second, they unlock it, with the self-interested help of reviewers, bloggers, journalists,...
by Nicole Baxter | Sep 4, 2014 | Publisher Case Studies
Based in Florida, Anhinga Press has been publishing poetry for forty years. Bookmobile has been printing books for them since 2007. Anhinga publishes about four titles every year, and they have a large backlist, giving them a robust inventory...
by Don Leeper | Sep 2, 2014 | Print Positive
The choice of binding is a critical piece of the publishing process. The right choice can help maximize title revenue and margins, while the wrong choice can diminish sales and increase costs. Awareness of the technical nuances in book binding can add value while...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 26, 2014 | Opinion
To be upfront: this is a really specific scenario—I know that my husband Karl and I are not average readers/book buyers. That said, here’s my sordid tale about how I mistakenly purchased two print books made from badly formatted Word files from...
by Don Leeper | Aug 19, 2014 | Opinion
Amazon’s online partisans have lambasted big New York publishers for being “gatekeepers,” barring authors’ paths to the land of milk and honey. But if book publishers are doing any gatekeeping, they are doing a spectacularly bad job of it:...
by Don Leeper | Aug 11, 2014 | Book Production
When we got our new Océ VarioPrint 6320 printers, we did not anticipate that their superior print quality could cause issues, but ironically that is what happened in one instance. The case in question was one where the designer used a typeface with very...
by Nicole Baxter | Apr 25, 2014 | Publisher Case Studies
In 2012, book distributor Ware-Pak partnered with Bookmobile to supply a high-quality POD-type printing service for their book publishers. Ware-Pak’s client Barcelona Publishers is one of our most successful cases to date! Founded in 1904, Barcelona publishes...
by Nicole Baxter | Apr 14, 2014 | Art Book Printing
It’s one of the biggest and most beautiful jobs we’ve ever printed and bound: 3,000 copies of the art book catalog for the Painting Women exhibition at the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Painting...
by Don Leeper | Apr 7, 2014 | Book Production
You no doubt got involved with book publishing because you were fascinated by cardboard boxes, right? Well, when I started buying printing for book publishers—before we started printing books in-house—I discovered that cardboard boxes mattered. The books...
