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.
Gutter for 5 25 x 8 book.
Now open up the book.
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.
Here is what you need to know about gutter margins.
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Most independent authors and publishers use either 5 5ʺ 8 5ʺ or 6ʺ 9ʺ for their novels or nonfiction books.
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.
First let s look at the basics.
Offset printing offset printing has few of the restrictions imposed by the digital book printers.
Keep the type and elements that you don t want trimmed off at least 3 8 375 from the bleed edge.
Kdp print book sizes then range from the smallest trade paperback 5 by 8 to the largest 8 5 by 11.
Set your document size to 8 5 x 11 inches and then apply the appropriate margin settings from the table below.
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Let s say you have a print book that is 5 25 wide by 8 tall.
Before getting arcs you should have the book designed and laid out by a professional unless you re doing it yourself with help from book design made simple of course complete with a front cover and spine though you may leave the back cover blank as this is where your readers reviews will go.
We advise against the 8 5 x 11 copies.
You look at it on your desk and you can measure it that it s 5 25 x 8 in size.
The type and elements will be 1 4 25 from the trim.
The dimensions from the spine calculator include a 1 8 125 bleed on all four sides.
Once the book is bound it gets trimmed and at this stage the 1 8 bleed is trimmed off.
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.
Which trim size should you choose.
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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.
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.