Publishing Services
The Artist Book Foundation (TABF) supports visual culture by publishing museum-quality books about the life and work of leading modern and contemporary artists. As a nonprofit, we collaborate with artists, museum curators, and historians to develop content with historical relevance to benefit the international art and design community. We publish Museum Publications, Surveys, Artists’ Monographs & Catalogues Raisonnés.
Publishing services include:
• editor/author review, copyediting, and selected fact-checking
• coordination and evaluation of permissions files for supporting illustrations
• review of design with sample covers and sample pages before layout completion
• review of choices for final binding materials
• ebook conversion and print production oversight
• delivery and distribution
Distribution and sales services include:
• cover plus selected interior pages, illustrated with descriptive text and specifications in TABF’s annual catalogues
• cover plus selected interior pages, illustrated and featured with descriptive text and specifications on our website
• targeted social media promotion and advertising
• direct sales and distribution to library and academic markets
• cover, plus selected interior pages, illustrated and featured with descriptive text and specifications in distributors’ catalogues
• display at national and international book and trade fairs, as well as at academic conferences
• ebook distribution to TABF’s e-vendor partners
Exclusive distribution for published titles include:
• sales and promotions as presented above
• agreed per-copy terms made on our standard 6-month accounting schedule
We also offer an opportunity for small, mid-size, and college museums to publish the work of emerging and under-recognized contemporary artists. Please read about our First Artist Book Series (FAB) program for more information.