[HarryT]

Thanks, gmw. Sounds as if perhaps Amazon's POD books aren't up to the quality of Lightning Source. I've no complaints about the paper or the cover; the specific problem is that an excessive amount of the page close to the spine seems to be glued, resulting in a book that's difficult to open. That's annoying with a reference book, which you want to leave open at a specific page. Probably less of a problem for a novel.