The Lulu PODs' spines

[Perdido Sangrenegra]

Do the softcovers with perfect binding have lettered spines or are they blank? (Particularly the Stafford Library and Glorantha Classics.)

Is there a typical page count that determines when they flip from wrap-around covers to perfect-bound covers?

[David Scott]

11 hours ago, Perdido Sangrenegra said:

Do the softcovers with perfect binding have lettered spines or are they blank? (Particularly the Stafford Library and Glorantha Classics.)

Is there a typical page count that determines when they flip from wrap-around covers to perfect-bound covers?

@Rick Meints

[Rick Meints]

22 hours ago, Perdido Sangrenegra said:

Do the softcovers with perfect binding have lettered spines or are they blank? (Particularly the Stafford Library and Glorantha Classics.)

Is there a typical page count that determines when they flip from wrap-around covers to perfect-bound covers?

The Glorantha Classics and RuneQuest Classics, with the exception of the stapled bound ones, all have text and such on the spines.
The Stafford Library books have blank spines.

[Rick Meints]

The only products we do with staples (industry term is saddle stitched) instead of perfect bound are the RQ Classics of Gateway Bestiary and Apple Lane. Why? Because that is how the originals were.

[Lordabdul]

On 9/1/2022 at 12:35 PM, Perdido Sangrenegra said:

Do the softcovers with perfect binding have lettered spines or are they blank? (Particularly the Stafford Library and Glorantha Classics.)

Here is what they look like:

Note that five of saddle-stiched books in the second picture (between RQ2 and Cults of Prax) are the Classics Essentials pack from the RQ2 Classic Kickstarter. I think that the POD version currently sold by Chaosium now combines all these books in one. Two other saddle stitched books are the Gateway and Apple Lane books that Rick mentioned above, and one is a GM reference booklet for RQ2 that I believe was also part of the Kickstarter.

Edited September 5, 2022 by Ludovic aka Lordabdul