> If there’s any book where the author would control the printing, it’s this one.
I agree. My point is that the final, bound form is probably not available for approval. The author sees and approves pages before they are bound. He probably did not have a bound paperback in his hands until the first print run. Only then could you judge how the choice of center margin did not work with the other choices.
He may have had approval over the method of paperback binding, but a number of variables are conspiring to make the final spine stiff enough that the pages kind of disappear into the binding. Some of those were the variables the author apparently approved - the paper choice, the page dimensions, the margins.
I will add that the layout really looks like a hardback layout. I think that was forefront in the author's mind.
I agree. My point is that the final, bound form is probably not available for approval. The author sees and approves pages before they are bound. He probably did not have a bound paperback in his hands until the first print run. Only then could you judge how the choice of center margin did not work with the other choices.
He may have had approval over the method of paperback binding, but a number of variables are conspiring to make the final spine stiff enough that the pages kind of disappear into the binding. Some of those were the variables the author apparently approved - the paper choice, the page dimensions, the margins.
I will add that the layout really looks like a hardback layout. I think that was forefront in the author's mind.