Book cover with flaps incorporating one or more bookmark(s) or card(s) to be cut out.

By integrating bookmarks or cards into the flaps of a book cover, the separate printing and distribution challenges of books and bookmarks are addressed, reducing environmental impact and ensuring bookmarks are always included with the book.

FR3154647A1Pending Publication Date: 2025-05-02VENTURA LAETITIA
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Application Number
FR2023011774
Authority / Receiving Office
FR · FR
Patent Type
Applications
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2023-10-29
Publication Date
2025-05-02

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Technical Problem

The separate printing and distribution of books and bookmarks result in increased energy consumption, transportation emissions, and logistical challenges, often leading to bookmarks not being included with books sold in stores.

Method used

Integrating one or more bookmarks or cards into the flaps of a book cover, allowing readers to cut them out, thus combining the book and bookmark printing processes and eliminating separate logistics.

Benefits of technology

This approach reduces carbon emissions by consolidating printing and transportation, unifies finishes between the book and bookmarks, and ensures bookmarks are always included with the book, enhancing reader experience.

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Abstract

The book cover has flaps that can accommodate visuals, front or front and back, of bookmarks or cards that the reader can simply cut out.
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Description

Title of the invention: Book cover with flaps incorporating one or more bookmarks or cards to be cut out. Abbreviation: MP In cover concept

[0001] Short description: Book cover with flaps incorporating one or more bookmarks or cards to be cut out.

[0002] Why print a book and its bookmark separately? Apart from the advertising function that a bookmark can generate for a book, which would therefore give it a purpose other than the book to which it is attached, the bookmark is an integral part of a novel. It is thus associated with an aesthetic in harmony with the book to which it refers.

[0003] As the reduction of CO2 emissions is more relevant than ever, integrating the bookmark into the design of the book allows us to respond favorably to this requirement, in several ways: 1. Book and bookmark printers are rarely the same. In any case, the printing machines are different and therefore require double the power. 2. In the most frequent case where the printers of books and bookmarks are actually different, the transport to the recipient (author, publisher, bookstores, etc.) is also multiplied by two. 3. It also becomes easy to unify the finishes between the book and the bookmarks or cards (selective varnish, gilding, etc.) if the latter are directly integrated into the cover of the book.

[0004] In addition, books distributed and distributed in bookstores are rarely accompanied by their bookmark, because specific logistics must be put in place, which is rare, to the detriment of the readership.

[0005] The concept proposed here is very simple:

[0006] Since there are book covers with flaps, these are able to integrate graphics, whether single-sided or double-sided, of several cards or bookmarks, whether associated with the novel sold or advertising for other publications of the publishing house or the author himself.

[0007] The reader will then simply have to cut them out, without harming the aesthetics of the book itself, since the flaps are internal elements, outside the reading field.

[0008] Figures [Fig.l]; [Fig.2]; [Fig.3] and [Fig.4] describe the demarcations of a flap cover which incorporates these bookmarks or cut-out cards. An in training on the cutting line may or may not be added depending on its visibility, as it depends on the background and the illustrations or photographs in place.

Claims

[Claim 1] Claims I claim the idea of ​​a Book Cover with at least one bookmark or cut-out card integrated into at least one flap of the cover.

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