by Nicole Baxter | May 10, 2017 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution
The term “softcover book printing” makes sense. After all, it’s the opposite of a hardcover, right? However, softcover is not the term the book industry uses—the preferred term is trade paperback or mass-market paperback. So at Bookmobile,...
by Nicole Baxter | Oct 21, 2016 | Dropship and Distribution, Publisher Case Studies
Maybe you don’t need this reminder, but Bookmobile’s next-door neighbor is a book distributor for small publishers! We like to call Itasca Books our sister company, and Itasca offers print distribution to the trade for small and indie publishers, as well...
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 Don Leeper | Apr 8, 2016 | Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Publisher Case Studies
The Bookmobile folks are not the only book people at 5120 Cedar Lake Road. Abraham and Associates, Stu Abraham’s well-known commission sales group, and Nodin Press, a long-time regional and literary publisher run by Norton Stillman, both office here as well. I...
by Don Leeper | Mar 7, 2016 | Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Print Positive
The book business is baroque in its complexity. Traditional publishers sell their titles to indie bookstores, bookstore chains, and online bookstores, but they also sell to wholesalers, who in turn sell to—guess who—indie bookstores, bookstore chains,...
by Don Leeper | Mar 2, 2016 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Print Positive
In a recent post, Mike Shatzkin argued that book publishers ought to face up to the necessity of “standardization.” But what would actually be gained–and what lost? I’ve heard this argument before, usually from smart people in the book...
