Posted on 12/20/2007 9:07:15 PM PST by ROTB
I have a friend, who has written a book, and he is attempting to perfect bind the book on his own. He has run into problems with the single-sheet binding, where the pages, even with hot melt adhesive are not adhering to the spine properly. The pages are easily pulled out of the spine with an even side to side pull.
He's come to the point where he believes he as a single individual cannot purchase the best hot melt adhesive, and it is only sold to industry book binders.
Any thoughts on this? Any help? Is there a type of glue sold to the sole-proprietor that will bind books together with the quality of the big boys?
bfl (I want to know, too!)
Did you look here among other places?
Why not just send it out to be printed?
Check this out: http://outskirtspress.com/selfpublishing.php
He says it’s too expensive. He’s trying to do this on a shoestring. He’s poor.
He’s tried PVA glue, and it cracks. He spent a month looking at glues, and none of them is as good as the pro stuff.
Bump for later
Several years ago, the Soapmakers, who published books, put them in 3 prong notebook binders.
They said it was “so you could put the updates and new information in the right place, in the book”.
Sounds like a good plan to me, as you of course charge for the updates.
Even Betty Crocker has a cookbook that is a loose leaf binder.
There are a couple or there was, groups in Yahoo Groups, that had book binding for a subject.
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