Book Binding Yourself without Taping, Hot Glue or Pricey Book Binding Machines

Do book binding yourself and take the concept of self publishing to a brand new level. Read a simple book binding tutorial and you can produce your own books which look as professional as those in bookstores. If you're doing a small print run of a book you've written, this can save you quite a bit of money.

To discover how much money you can save, let's use my perfect bound, digitally printed, print-on-demand published book as an example. In the past, the book has been printed and bound by Lightning Source which charges me a whopping $4.02 per copy. But you can do the book binding yourself and produce the same quality book for about 50 cents per copy. Now that I've found this book binding tutorial, guess who is going to be producing my book? In addition to significantly reducing your per unit costs, you'll have no set up fees.

To do book binding yourself is easy and quick once you understand the process. You can even pay your kids to do it. These books can be sold directly to bookstores, to Amazon (through the small publisher Amazon Advantage Program), to gift stores and catalog companies or through direct mail.

If you have a self publishing company or are considering starting one, why not take it all the way and control the process from start to finish? I wish I'd had this book binding tutorial when I was forced to pay Kinkos $11 per copy for perfect bound galleys (unbelievably, these bound books with blank covers that are sent out to prepublication reviewers before your book comes off the press cost more than the actual printed book.) Imagine how much money and frustration I would have saved.Now you can print and do the book binding yourself which takes less than 2 minutes per book.

Of course you can also use this book binding tutorial to make other things:

  • Make a book of your child's drawings
  • Make a family cookbook
  • Bind your own journals or diaries or make them as gifts to give to family and friends
  • If you're a photographer or artist, bind your own portfolios
  • Bind ebooks you have purchased on the web


By doing the book binding yourself, you can truly be a print-on-demand operation. Forget about carrying 2000 books in inventory (the minimum print run for an offset printer). Forget about paying the exorbitant per copy price charged by digital printers with print-on-demand technology (as much as twice the cost of what is charged by offset printers).

Using this book binding tutorial, you will learn how to make your own book binding machine that is easy to make and costs less than $20. Everything you need to know to create a professionally-produced book is included in this tutorial:

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