by Nicole Baxter | Sep 9, 2020 | Book Production
A New York Times article has been making the rounds on social media: Printer Jam: Supply Issues Disrupt the Book Industry’s Fall Season. I am here to assure you that Bookmobile is not experiencing a backlog, we have our normal quick schedules, and we also do not have...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 27, 2020 | Book Production
3.27.2020 Update Bookmobile is open and producing books without delay! While a two week stay-at-home order has been issued for Minnesota, Bookmobile is a key supplier to book publishers, which are listed as essential by the state, and we also operate and provide...
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 13, 2020 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Complete Lyrics by David Berman was designed and produced by Brandon Langley. It’s a special edition run of just 44 copies that Brandon sent out during the 2019 holidays to friends and collaborators. It is a striking design and an excellent use of a white foil...
by bookmobile_admin | Oct 4, 2019 | Book Production, Print Positive
Bookmobile is a short run digital printer, but our design and typesetting department works with and manages offset printing with outside vendors. Printing offset is a completely different printing process than digital printing. Offset printing is great for...
by Nicole Baxter | Sep 5, 2019 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Publisher Case Studies
We are very happy to be working with a new publisher at Bookmobile: Neon Hemlock Press. Bookmobile is doing the short run printing and book order fulfillment for Neon Hemlock’s queer writing and speculative fiction. A brand new publisher, their first three...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 19, 2019 | Art Book Printing
Hardcover book endsheets (also known as endpapers or endleaves) are the pages at the beginning and end of a hardcover book. Endsheets are typically made from a separate, heavier stock then the stock used for the interior pages. An endsheet is a sheet of paper, folded...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 3, 2019 | Dropship and Distribution
You can count on Bookmobile to fulfill your orders correctly and on time! Bookmobile has provided book fulfillment services since 2005. Books are stored in our climate-controlled and insured warehouse, right next-door to the Bookmobile print shop. Our book...
by Nicole Baxter | Apr 11, 2019 | Book Production, Opinion, Print Positive
Considering book publishing and book printing? I recently did an interview with the entrepreneur and author Dave Farrow as part of his Brains Behind It series. Dave covers many topics, from America’s education system, to succeeding as a poet, to the downsides of...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 5, 2019 | Art Book Printing, Book Production
Printing comics? Printing coloring books? Comic books and coloring books are usually made up of line art, like the comic featured above (Stonebreaker Issue I from Shipwreck Planet). Line art prints differently from a photograph or a halftone graphic—most...
by Nicole Baxter | Jan 25, 2019 | Art Book Printing
Congratulations to Ben Mancino, who won second place in the Amateur Nature Book category in the 2018 International Photo Awards for Welcome to the Berkshires. We print and bind many photography coffee table books at Bookmobile, and Ben’s is a beautiful example...
