I feel like book design in general was always an area of interest of mine, I took a bookbinding class one semester. An interesting book cover does really increase my likelihood of picking a book off of a shelf and reading it and it is interesting how the articles was going over physical book makers consciously making more luxurious feeling book covers to detract more customers from going with the e-book variant. I definitely agree that the physical book often has something more in the way of substance. The interesting things people can do with regards to the construction of the book also shows more in physical form. One thing I have somewhat noticed when it comes to manga in Japan is the use of store exclusive extra inserts. Like in order to get the store specific extra pages you need to buy the book from the specific retailer, etc. I also noticed in Japan things like manga often have their own book jacket with printing on the inside cover, that doesn't always make its way to the English localization, is also something.
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