Have you thought of using bookleteer to make special gifts to give to people at Christmas? Such as Festive StoryCubes as an alternative to sending traditional Christmas cards, or picture album eBooks to share with family and friends? To help you get into some festive bookleteering we’re offering a 10% discount on all Short Run [...]
Entries Tagged as 'print on demand'
Xmas 2011 Printing Discount For Festive Ideas
November 7th, 2011 No Comments
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October 20% Discount on Short Run Printing
October 3rd, 2011 No Comments
This month (October 2011) we’re offering a special 20% discount off Short Run Printing orders. Check out prices on the estimator & use code : BKLTR1011-20 when ordering. Before ordering StoryCubes, please get in touch to find out when our next planned printing date is (we have to send them to press in batches of [...]
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June 20% Discount on Short Run Printing
June 16th, 2011 No Comments
To celebrate the launch of bookreader, we’re offering a special 20% discount off Short Run Printing orders this month (June 2011). Check out prices on the estimator & use code : BKLTR0611-20 when ordering. (This offer cannot be combined with any other offers or discounts). Happy Bookleteering!
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crowdfunding publications
March 22nd, 2011 No Comments
The estimable Alex Steffen, founder of Wordchanging.com, has recently announced a new project – Carbon Zero: A Short Tour of Your City’s Future – which he’s attempting to fund through the crowdfunding site kickstarter. This is a really interesting idea and something we’re keen to investigate ourselves, having had some small success with our own [...]
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City As Material Set
March 18th, 2011 No Comments
We’ve just received the complete set of 10 City As Material books back from the printers and next week we’ll be designing and making the special slipcases to hold them together and collect them into their limited edition (50 copies). The set will go on sale from the 31st March 2011 via the proboscis online [...]
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Pitch Up & Publish 2011
March 1st, 2011 No Comments
We’re starting a new regular series of Pitch Up & Publish workshops to help people get started and make the most use out of bookleteer as possible : guiding them from concept to publication and beyond. The 2 hour workshops will be held at our studio, will have a maximum of around 6 places and [...]
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Short Run Printing Price Estimator
February 16th, 2011 No Comments
You can now estimate prices for eBooks and StoryCubes on the PPOD page using the estimator to select size of eBooks (A6 or A5) or StoryCube (A4 or A3), number of pages, quantity of copies and shipping destination (UK / European Union / North America / Rest of World). Both eBooks and StoryCubes can now [...]
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Report from the field: eBooks in Sudan
February 2nd, 2011 1 Comment
A report by Julie Anderson, British Museum In January, I returned from Sudan where my co-author Salah Mohamed and I distributed the eBook we produced last autumn. Frederik Lesage has previously written about the development of our eBook, which deals with the archaeological excavations conducted in Dangeil, Sudan, as a case study for eBook usage, [...]
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New pricing coming soon
January 26th, 2011 No Comments
We’re presently working on a simpler and more flexible ordering system for our Print & Publish On Demand (PPOD) service. The key changes are : the minimum total order for StoryCubes will be just 50 cubes (the minimum per cube design). We will print orders as soon as we have received enough for a print [...]
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The Amplified Author at Crouch End Unlibrary
November 24th, 2010 1 Comment
Yesterday I took part in if:book‘s Amplified Author event at the Crouch End Unlibrary, giving a series of short workshops about bookleteer and print on demand alongside Anna Lewis of Completely Novel. Anna and I introduced 4 groups of people (many local writers) to the opportunities and limitations of print on demand systems (including our [...]
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Christmas Printing Deadlines
November 13th, 2010 1 Comment
If you’re planning to print some eBooks or StoryCubes in time for Christmas, here are our last printing dates : eBooks UK orders : 6th December (3pm GMT) International orders : 1st December (3pm GMT) StoryCubes All orders : 1st December (3pm GMT) Some Christmas Ideas StoryCubes and eBooks can make great gifts – why [...]
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Some Recent PPOD books
October 8th, 2010 1 Comment
September was a busy month here at Proboscis and on bookleteer: we sent seven books to be printed via the PPOD service as well as 10 different StoryCubes. The range of publications was very broad, from books about exhibitions and art projects to a book in Arabic about a major archaeological excavation in Sudan and [...]
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Case Study – Julie Anderson and the British Museum
September 30th, 2010 2 Comments
As with every previous case study I’ve posted up to now, this week’s case is an example of a very distinctive context for the design and use for the eBooks. Today’s post is the first of two cases that involve the British Museum which means we’re dealing with a far larger institution than in previous [...]
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Excavations in the Temple Precinct of Dangeil, Sudan
August 5th, 2010 No Comments
This recently published eBook by Julie Anderson and Salah Mohamed Ahmed describes the progress of the Berber-Abidiya Archaeological Project in Dangeil, Sudan. Julie is Assistant Keeper of Sudanese and Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum and Salah works for the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan and the eBook was written for a conference [...]
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Crowdfunded Publishing with bookleteer : a concept
July 2nd, 2010 5 Comments
Here at Proboscis we are very excited by the quality of the new PPOD service we’re offering users of bookleteer, but we also recognise that there are still economic barriers to people wanting to break into publishing their own eBooks & StoryCubes. Despite our ground-breaking service offering low-run printing (from only 50 copies per title, [...]
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