Print editions
How the machine prepares an edition.
One interior system, one binary cover system, three bindings — produced only when a reader asks for one.
The interior
Every edition is set in EB Garamond on a 5.5 × 8.5 inch page. Inside margins widen as a book grows thicker so the text does not vanish into the gutter. Line breaks are computed paragraph by paragraph, words are hyphenated by dictionary, widows and orphans are controlled, and chapters begin with deliberate space. Running heads carry the book and chapter; folios remain quiet at the foot.
The front matter identifies the work, its source and the status of its underlying text. The colophon names the type and the system that assembled the edition. Editorial material never masquerades as part of the original.
The cover
The archive uses exactly two liveries. Fiction appears on a matte-black field with the machine-red spiral at the top. Non-fiction inverts the same pair: red field, black spiral. Titles are set in EB Garamond; authors, classifications and production marks use Space Mono. There is no generated illustration and no genre decoration. The machine itself is the image.
The rule is deliberately severe. Across a shelf, black and red form one collection; at a glance, the inversion tells you whether the work is fiction or non-fiction.
Paper and production
Books are printed on demand on cream, acid-free 60 lb uncoated paper at the production facility nearest the destination. Nothing is manufactured until it is ordered, which removes inventory waste and keeps every viable title available.
Pricing
Prices follow print cost, fulfilment, payment processing, refund reserve and a margin that keeps the digital archive free. Longer books cost more to manufacture. Bibliomancer does not manufacture discounts by first inflating the price.