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12 Jun 2026
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Choosing Between Cream and Bright White Stock
Why the paper you pick changes how long a reader stays with a chapter — and what it does to your unit cost.
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Why the paper you pick changes how long a reader stays with a chapter — and what it does to your unit cost.
Thumbnails are the new storefront. How our studio tests a jacket at 90 pixels wide before it goes to plate.
Net receipts, reserves against returns, and the three lines most first-time authors misread.
At what run length sewn binding stops being a luxury and starts being the sensible call.
How a single metadata field decides which shelf — physical and algorithmic — your book lands on.
A checklist we send every author, from gutter margin to spine alignment to the colour of the endpapers.