One issue in choosing a book size is that the booksellers have put the book on a standard sized shelf so it should conform to that size. Very tall books, like coffee table books are hard to display because they don’t fit on a shelf. Booksellers really don’t like those (unless they become best sellers).
Sent from my iPhone > On May 22, 2024, at 13:01, Gavin Scott via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 2:39 PM Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: >> As I mentioned, it is not unprecedented; I have a book about book design >> which talks at some length about choosing the page proportions, and it >> mentions square pages as one of the recognized choices. I think it says >> that it isn't very common, but I don't remember what else it says, for >> example any particular reason why one might choose this format (or reasons >> to avoid it). > > Here's another example: > > https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Illustrated-Double-Helix/dp/1476715491 > > where there's essentially a normal width book inside but the wider > pages allow for extensive sidebar-style annotations and also provide > more options for graphic layout of illustrations, etc.
