Reply To: Questions about a perfect bound book

You are welcome. You seem to have it all correct.

You might want to check with your printer to see whether or not they CAN print on the inside of the cover. That might not be an option for you. If it is, then they would probably want just one file that contains the front inside image, spine blank area, back inside image (as if the cover were a two sided page). If it isn't, then you will want to put those images in the interior file, perhaps as the very first and very last pages. My guess is that you won't be able to print on the back side of the cover, but I could be wrong. I glanced through a bunch of paperback books on my bookshelf, and none of them contain anything on the back side of the cover.

Also, check with your printer, but all the ones I have worked with for perfect bound trade paperback require that your interior file have a page count that is a multiple of four. If it isn't, you will need to add blank pages in the front or back or elsewhere to get your page count to a multple of four (i.e., page count of 228 is good, page count of 230 is not).