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Originally Posted by phillipgessert
It’s gotta be a typo—800 seems a lot more likely. Their cover generator caps at 630 at the largest trim size. Kinda makes sense, right? A 450 page book would be about an inch thick, 4500 it would be so thick it would be very difficult to read, probably impossible. Bibles usually use very thin paper and many/most are sewn, not perfect bound.
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It's not a
typo; It certainly does not say 8,000 pages. He's misunderstood, is all. See here:
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201834180 where the 828 page limit is CLEARLY set out.
KDP and all POD books are basically bound using
the perfect-bound process. Perfect-bound has a physical limitation--the binding spine
cannot be much over 2" thick, before the binding simply fails. That's 825 pages, give or take on thinner, 50# white paper and about 800 pages with the slightly thicker 50# cream paper.
828 pages is
the absolute, outside page limit at KDP and at most POD companies. 4500 is quite simply not doable with the binding processes available to you via Print on Demand.
NO perfect-bound book in the known universe is a thousand pages and certainly not 4500.
Yes, you see longer books on Amazon--those are printed commercially, using other binding processes and are paid for by the publisher--that's you--and then put up for sale on Amazon. When you use a POD process, the POD company, like Amazon, is taking all the risk, on the book printing, binding, packaging and shipping, before the customer pays and even then, if the customer insists on returning the book, Amazon doesn't get to recoup their shipping costs. (or overhead, either).
Thus, I'm sorry, but you're going to have to break that "book" into 6 smaller portions, OR, you will need to pay a professional to lay it out in signatures, and to design a proper cover for a different binding process, and then pay to have 100+ copies printed. Then you can set up a seller's account, with Amazon and handle the orders, fulfilment, collection, shipping, etc., yourself.
(FYI, I should add that I
personally do not know of
any binding process that can handle 4500 pages.)
Good luck.
Hitch