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Though it can increase the production price several dollars each, metal side stitch books with black ink may be personalized on the front or back cover or with an extra frontice piece. 

All binding/cover services are available as part of a complete publishing package, POD (small quantity charges may apply), and binding only.

Tape and staple softbound books are sometimes referred to as side stitch softbound books.

For a tape and staple book, the collated text block has separate front and back covers applied.  The book block is then wire stitched, or "stapled", on the binding edge.  Cloth or plastic binding tape is then applied down the binding edge of the book.  The tape covers the wire stitched staples.  This is both advantageous to the reader and the book itself.  The reader won't get stabbed on the back side of the staples, and the book itself due to the fact the raw edge of the staple is not subjected to as much stress as item catch and pull on them.

While custom printed tape can be produced, the drawbacks and costs of this particular type of binding allow for the generally accepted statement that tape and staple book spines are blank (non-imprinted).  However, some ingenious authors, have been known to use cloth tape and then employ a calligrapher to hand label each spine.

This method has nearly been replaced by the perfect bound method, which offers a more pleasing finished product. However, there are those that would prefer a staple to glue.

There are those who like the ascetic look of a tape and staple book as well.  For those, we now also offer, upon request, the fastback cloth tape method to eliminate the acidity/rust factor of the wire stitch through the years.

Standard types of soft bindings include:

• perfect binding

• traditional tape and staple binding

• plastic comb binding

• coil (spiral) binding

• 3-ring binding

• wire saddle stitch binding

• post/Chicago Screw