Alaska Print Brokers prints books for its parent company Todd Communications, which has published more than 500 Alaska books, calendars, maps, note cards and posters as well as providing these services to publishers throughout the western United States and individuals who wish to self-publish.
Print Brokering
Our knowledge of book printers and binderies allows us to provide each customer the best combination of quality, price and delivery time. We deal with printers from Alaska, the Lower 48, Korea, Thailand and China. We are always exploring the world for new, higher quality and more competitively priced printers – many in specialty areas such as playing cards, pop-up books, board books and comb-bound cookbooks.
Todd Communications holds a U.S. Customs bond for entering books into the U.S. at the most competitive rates and has expertise in shipping printed materials from New York to Barrow, Alaska at the best possible rates. We frequently ship full container loads of print materials from the Lower 48 and Asia through the port of Seattle, which enables us to obtain better freight rates than those shipping smaller quantities.
The company bids printing projects based on job specifications for three or more quantities so the customer is able to see how much the unit price is decreasing as the print quantity increases.
Editing
We have edited more than 100 books covering a wide variety of subject matter. Senior editor Flip Todd was both a reporter and Business Editor at the Anchorage Times, as well as being a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. He has written and edited Alaska subject matter since 1969 when he joined the Anchorage Times. He also served as a writer in the public information office of the U.S. Army Alaska and served as Alaska correspondent for the Washington Post and Business Week magazine.
We specialize in editing Alaska subject matter and have considerable expertise in Alaska geography, place names, business, Alaska Native corporations, history, politics, hunting, fishing and cooking. We have edited books for authors ranging from former governors and attorneys general to engineers, scientists, chefs, fishermen, hunters and housewives.
The company charges $95 an hour for editing services.
Book Design
We specialize in the digital design of books and other print matter including calendars, posters, note cards and maps. We have extensive experience in all generations of both Mac and PC-based systems and primarily use Adobe InDesign and Photoshop software in our process.
We design about a dozen calendars a year along with many books and other projects slated for printing.
We issue ISBN and UPC numbers and bar codes, PCNs and other requirements for book production.
The company charges $95 an hour for its graphic design services.