22 May
2024
22 May
'24
1:08 p.m.
One issue in choosing a book size is that the booksellers have put the book on a standard
sized shelf so it should conform to that size. Very tall books, like coffee table books
are hard to display because they don’t fit on a shelf.
Booksellers really don’t like those (unless they become best sellers).
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On May 22, 2024, at 13:01, Gavin Scott via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 2:39 PM Paul Koning <paulkoning(a)comcast.net> wrote:
As I mentioned, it is not unprecedented; I have a
book about book design which talks at some length about choosing the page proportions, and
it mentions square pages as one of the recognized choices. I think it says that it
isn't very common, but I don't remember what else it says, for example any
particular reason why one might choose this format (or reasons to avoid it).
Here's another example:
https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Illustrated-Double-Helix/dp/1476715491
where there's essentially a normal width book inside but the wider
pages allow for extensive sidebar-style annotations and also provide
more options for graphic layout of illustrations, etc.