The Defects That Pass Review: A Print Production Manual for KDP and IngramSpark: Paperback and Hardcover Interiors, Covers, and Spine Geometry - Softcover

Carrier, Jeffrey L.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798950343230

Verlag: Carrier Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

The expensive defects are not the ones that get rejected.

One of the author's hardcovers is on sale right now with its spine printed upside down. It passed every check. The geometry is exact, every element clears every published limit, and no automated test in existence would catch it, because an inverted spine has perfect measurements.

Every other guide to self-publishing teaches the upload wizard. This one teaches what silently goes wrong: the defects that pass validation, pass review, reach print, and sit on live listings for months while every dashboard reports that everything is fine.

Built entirely from measurement. Drawn from the defect log of a working catalogue of more than seventy titles across KDP and IngramSpark, this manual covers:

Interiors. Mirrored margins, the inside-margin minimum and why you must build above it, page count as a design variable, converter traps and silent clipping.

Paperback covers. Trim against bleed and the margin that scaling quietly eats, the barcode zone, edge safety for type.

Hardcover. Case laminate geometry to five decimal places, the hinge dead zone that paperbacks do not have, rebuilding a spine rather than stretching it, sampling ink from the cover.

IngramSpark. Seven measured caliper records that contradict every published spine calculator, the two failure modes and why only one is fatal, the three separate causes of one identical error message.

Verification. The part that outlasts any particular specification, and the reason to trust the rest.

Twenty figures drawn to scale. Three appendices, including a one-page pre-upload checklist and a complete geometry reference. Every number came off a real file or a live record, and the corrections are left in on purpose, because a rule that was wrong and later fixed teaches more than one that was right all along.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Carrier Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798950343230
• Einband: Copertina flessibile
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188
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