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• Perfect Bound: A paperback book where the title and author's name are printed on the spine. Your book must have 70-80 pages for text to appear on the spine.
• PlastiCoil: A spiral bound book (like a spiral notebook). Recommended for books less than 1" thick, between 48 and 470 pages.
• Saddle stitch: A stapled booklet. Best for very thin books. Your page count should be divisible by 4. If it is not, the printer adds enough blank pages to the back of your book to make the page count divisible by 4.
• Dust Jacket Hardcover: A book bound in navy blue linen with a full-color dust jacket.
• Casewrap Hardcover: Full-color, glossy cover; no dust jacket.

Distribution Binding Types and their page counts can be found here.

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If the number of pages in your project falls outside the minimum and maximum page count limits set for a particular binding type, you are not given the option to erroneously select that binding. For more information, see What types of binding are available?

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• If your title is shorter than 42 characters, it will display alone, without the author name(s).
• If your title is longer than 42 characters and your author name(s) is shorter than 42 characters, the author name(s) will display, without the title.
• If each of your title and author name(s) is longer than 42 characters, your title will be truncated to 42 characters and displayed without the author name(s).

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