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From: ecl@ahutb.UUCP (e.c.leeper)
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Subject: Re: packaging
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 11:53:24 EST
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Regarding ads et al at the ends of books...

Books are bound (well, glued, these days) in signatures of 32 pages (or some
power of two.  This means that a novel that has 200 pages will have 24
(32 * 8 - 200) blank pages.  Well, there's the title page, perhaps an
introduction, perhaps an afterword, but as often as not, there are leftover
pages.  Rather than have them go blank, the publisher uses them to advertise
other books.

The solution is probably to write so that there are exactly 32n pages in the
novel when you're done (counting the title page, of course). :-)

					Evelyn C. Leeper
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