Most independent authors and publishers use either 5 5ʺ 8 5ʺ or 6ʺ 9ʺ for their novels or nonfiction books.
Gutter for 5 25 x 8 book.
Trim sizes of 5 8 5 25 8 5 5 8 or 6 9 are only available in crème when looking to use expanded distribution.
Their own template for book size 8 x 10 gives a gutter of 13 but when you upload their internal auto review says the gutter should be at least 5 but gives no mention of inside margin.
The dimensions from the spine calculator include a 1 8 125 bleed on all four sides.
If you re designing your own pages in indesign or photoshop please be sure to keep critical content images and text at least 1 4 635 cm away from final trim sizes and at least one inch 2 5 cm from your book s edges for imagewrap covers.
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Keep the type and elements that you don t want trimmed off at least 3 8 375 from the bleed edge.
Let s say you have a print book that is 5 25 wide by 8 tall.
Note if you are unable to select the same paper size as your finished book size in your software you can use the chart below to scale down an 8 5 x 11 piece of paper to the size of book you want to print.
We advise against the 8 5 x 11 copies.
I am trying to create a 5 5 x 8 5 book but i need information on how to set the margins and indentations.
Once the book is bound it gets trimmed and at this stage the 1 8 bleed is trimmed off.
List of standard books sizes on kdp if you re hoping to convince local store owners to add your novel to their mass market book racks consider ingram spark s print on demand service which offers the following print book.
Set your document size to 8 5 x 11 inches and then apply the appropriate margin settings from the table below.
For instance at createspace only the 5 25 x 8 5 5 x 8 5 or 6 x 9 are available all other sizes print with white paper only.
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Offset printing offset printing has few of the restrictions imposed by the digital book printers.
Try measuring the amount of the page that you can see to read from.
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Here is what you need to know about gutter margins.
You look at it on your desk and you can measure it that it s 5 25 x 8 in size.
Which trim size should you choose.
Now open up the book.
Kdp print book sizes then range from the smallest trade paperback 5 by 8 to the largest 8 5 by 11.
Someone needs to spell out the relationship of gutter to inside margin not mixing the terms and giving examples in a chart with numbers in it.