Some bookbinders hate this type due to early failure of the spine and chipping along the board edges.
Case laminate cover.
Only if the book is incredibly literary would i consider a dust cover since that s what customers expect.
Case laminate is cheaper and your book will stand out.
The case is durable and the art won t get crumpled lost.
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.
The blue and grey digital cloth hardcover options will have the textured lamination over the cover with or without a jacket.
There is the other option of a case laminate hard cover with the image and text printed directly on the casing.
Case laminate is the norm in non fiction and pretty common in genre fiction.
Whichever laminate you choose is the laminate that will be used for the book cover and the jacket.
At this time only gloss or matte lamination is available for the jacketed case laminate hardcover option.