Category: News & Trends

These days technology makes it easier than ever to find recommendations on just about anything. Amazon recommends things to buy based on items you've bought before; Pandora plays you...

In addition to book printing, we also do a lot of business card printing here at Advanced Print & Finishing, and are proud to say that we can produce cards in just about any style you can think of. Need your business cards embossed? Not a problem. Gold foil stamped? We can handle it. Have a Patrick Bateman-style list of sp...

What is a literary cultural district? No one knows.

Seriously, even the group attempting to create the nation's first such district -- in Boston -- doesn't know exactly what they are att...

How's the self-publishing industry doing these days? Pretty well, it seems safe to say.

Recent numbers taken from ISBN data show that there were 391,000 self-published books released in 2012, representing a jump of 59 percent from the previous year. Perhaps even more impressive, that number is up 422 percent from 2007. The numbers are provided by Bowker, which pr...

It's not every day that I get to write about baseball here on the Best Book Printing Blog. In fact, I fear I may never get to do so again, and thusly my beloved Atlanta Braves will be forever off limits for my list of blog topics.

Today, though, is a very special day. It's time to tell the st...

As a commercial printer, we can produce your book printing project in nearly any size you need, though most books we print tend to fall within the confines of certain measurements:

5.5 in. x 8.5 in. 6 in. x 9 in. 7 in. x 10 in. 8.5 in. x 11 in.

are all commo...

You write books. We print books. All of us read books.

And we should read more, according to a new infographic reporting those that read more tend to be in better physical and emotional health than those that don't. If you're one of our neighbors to the north you'll get some specialized information (this graphic was put togethe...

Yes, you read that headline correctly. Not National Novel Writing Year (or Decade), but Month. And that month is now upon us.

Since 1999, every November has been dedicated as the time to write a novel in just one month. You may have seen it abbreviated far and wide on the internet as...