What is your take.
Case laminate cover.
The case is durable and the art won t get crumpled lost.
Case laminate is the norm in non fiction and pretty common in genre fiction.
There is the other option of a case laminate hard cover with the image and text printed directly on the casing.
Some bookbinders hate this type due to early failure of the spine and chipping along the board edges.
Hi gary and all yes i am interested in how case laminate holds up as well as how lightning source s perfect binding holds up.
I m thinking of sending them a 600 page book 8 5 x 11 that has been traditionally printed.
At this time only gloss or matte lamination is available for the jacketed case laminate hardcover option.
The blue and grey digital cloth hardcover options will have the textured lamination over the cover with or without a jacket.
Only if the book is incredibly literary would i consider a dust cover since that s what customers expect.