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Originally Posted by John Whitworth
It seems to me that a lot of American poetry books are too big. I don't mean too long but too big, too tall. They won't sit on the average shelf. Or perhaps my shelves are too small.
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I don't know why, but the paperbacks I own from UK presses, like Waywiser and Cinnamon Press and Enitharmon, are usually in the 5 by 7 3/4 size, while the American books are 6 by 9. Perhaps it's just that paper standard sizes for book production are different, as they are for copy machines; we've got 8 1/2 by 11 and you've got A4, etc. Does anybody know?
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64 pages is the usual length, isn't it? There's some printers' reason for this.
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It has to do with the number of pages in a gathering. If the number of pages is evenly divisible by sixteen, there won't be a lot of blanks in the last gathering. You can have more than sixty four, but I think Michael's advice about being choosy is valid.