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- noun Plural form of
bookbindery .
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Examples
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Mr. James and the owners of at least four other small Bay Area bookbinderies said they expected to retire over the next 10 years or so.
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They are larger than book artists, individuals who typically print and bind one book at a time, but smaller than large commercial bookbinderies, which often employ dozens of workers and bind thousands of books at a time with highly mechanized equipment.
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Bob Berring, a University of California, Berkeley, law professor and book collector, said small bookbinderies serve an important role, making high-quality bindings for $100 to $200, compared with upscale book artists, who charge up to $5,000 a book.
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The Bay Area's small-scale, or so-called trade, bookbinderies generally comprise two to 10 workers and offer a variety of services, from repairing family Bibles to binding books in batches of dozens or hundreds.
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A longtime bookmaking hub, the Bay Area for years has been home to more than half a dozen small bookbinderies.
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Small bookbinderies occupy a niche in the book world.
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The San Francisco Bay Area's small bookbinderies are struggling amid the weak economy and spread of digital publishing.
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