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
To support greater access to the arts and culture, we have donated and delivered over 1,800 TABF books to underserved public libraries, schools, and correctional and rehabilitation facilities nationwide.