Why in some books in the back there are several blank pages, sometimes more than 10?
Why in some books in the back there are several blank pages, sometimes more than 10?
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Why in some books in the back there are several blank pages, sometimes more than 10?
because book pages are printed on huge sheets of paper which are then folded. Each section is 16 or 32 pages so if the text is short a few pages, those are included as blanks
@Kim ?? at one point I thought it was for taking notes
i think nowadays this may not always be true but with older books if you look at the spine you can see each of the 16 page signatures
@Kim thatโs interesting thanks ?
Yes I have noticed that
Who knew?
publishers ๐ ๐
when you are on a tight budget like for school text books, getting everything into a multiple of 32 pages is one of our greatest challenges
Even worse when you are reading and didn’t know about extra blank pages, think you have lots left to read and bam, no more words to be read x
I get even more annoyed when the back of the book has the addition of the first chapter of the next in the series! I feel itโs a rather cheap trick.
its a marketing ploy that kills two birds with one stone – the pages have to be there so they may as well use that cost to drum up interest in the next book
@Kim I would always avoid reading it because I find it frustrating to have just one chapter! Too impatient perhaps!
@Hilary yeah to just read the one chapter then wait for the whole book to be released, I hate that
@Albert
I may be odd but I love that, get’s me all excited for the next one, although I did read a book once that had a chapter at the end and I never found it and can’t remember what the book was so that has always annoyed me that I didn’t get to read the new book as it sounded intriguing!
@Sara That would be one of my worries!
I read so many books that is hard to remember sometimes, hoping I come across it by accident someday ๐
I haven’t done this with my books yet, but as a reader I always liked it… it maybe the most successful marketing ploy on this reader.
@Tony I find it offputting, never read it.
I find it good because if I don’t get into a book in the first chapter I don’t read the rest
I know from experience that some publishers want the books to be a certain dimension, possibly for shipping ease and shelf space
If you’re talking paperbacks, the printing pages are done in blocks of 16. If the amount of written pages is, say, 66, that means it’s gone into the next block of 16, so there will be extra blank pages.
Print on demand has changed this, thankfully – books are more likely to be ‘perfect bound’, which is to say individual sheets are glued to the spine. I’m sure we all remember paperbacks where the pages would fall out … the glue these days seems to be stronger and it doesn’t happen so much. Even commercial publishers are using print on demand these days so you’re less likely to see blank pages at the back of books as only the required pages are printed and bound.