The retail price a consumer will pay for a book is largely dictated by the format, and retail buyers have strict guidelines about how a book can be priced.Ī paperback book is often significantly cheaper than a hardcover book. So if you’re making arrangements to have your book printed, how do you decide which format is best for your book? Here are the three main determiners. The book title and author's name are often stamped onto the cloth binding, and hardcover books typically come wrapped in a dust jacket with artwork. Here the pages can be glued or sewn into the spine, making the spine more flexible so that the book can lay flat when opened. Hardcover (also called casebound or hardbound) books have covers that are sturdier, usually made from thick cardboard wrapped in cloth. Mass-market books are usually smaller in trim size and fatter with a thinner, lower-quality stock and cover. Mass-market is a type of paperback you often see used for romance novels or thrillers. When we talk about paperback book printing, we typically mean trade paperbacks, which are the 6x9 or 5.5x8.5–inch books you see most often in bookstores.
Paperback (also called soft cover or perfect-bound) books usually have a cover made from paperboard or a very thick stock, and the pages are attached to the binding with glue.
Hardcover vs. paperback or mass market-how do you decide which is right for your book? Book Formats We’ve written before about print-on-demand versus traditional printing, but we thought it might also be helpful to discuss binding style.
If you’re taking the reins on how your book is being printed, you’ve probably already come to face-to-face with the many available options.
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