As it loses its traditional value as an efficient vessel for text, the paper book’s other qualities—from its role in literary history to its inimitable design possibilities to its potential ...

"We have this great partner in India who has now figured out how to use cotton-based up-cycled materials to print as paper," Mahoney said. Publishers are also rethinking book design. It might be a ...

What attracts their attention while reading? Before I reach for a book and open it, I take a look, most importantly, at its design. I also like to touch the paper and to smell it. Recently, a friend ...

I’ve been a book designer since the 1990s, working with some of Australia’s and the United Kingdom’s leading publishers. These days, I design book covers for Giramondo Publishing.

A book about technology might require a more ... first came up with the idea of using design to save paper. Bibles have historically used upwards of 2,500 pages. In 2015, Zondervan’s designers ...

But most book people agree that the copies will eventually be pulped, or dissolved into a milky liquid and reconstituted as clean paper. In this regard, at least, Imagine has plenty of company.