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8.5x11 or 6x9? What's Your Favorite Book Size?

Started by Jamfke, April 23, 2021, 01:33:34 PM

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Thondor

Generally I prefer 8.5x11, including that I'd rather have a saddle-stiched 32 page 8.5x11 -- they stay open at the table. Smaller saddle-stiched booklets are fine too if their contents would otherwise be much shorter.

I have one publisher on the CDG Marketplace (Broken Ruler Games) who seems to prefer 7x10 for his ~100-200 page perfect bounds, and I'm happier with that than a 6x9 book.

Roughly graphic novel sized books are fine too. This seems to be fairly common for superhero stuff. I plan to make my next release (Simple Superheroes #1) a ~40page saddle-stitched with current NA comic-book dimensions.

Standardization would be nice (for consumers, retailers, and even warehousing), but they'll always be weird sizes because people like different things.