There are many different types of binding for books, and if may suprrise you when you come to get one printed that you can in fact choose from a large selection of them and will need to make this choice for your product. Perfect binding is a type of book binding that is very useful for a range of different products. For publishers this is of course highly relevant, but it's also very relevant for businesses and companies who might need to select a type of binding for their promotional materials such as brochures or photobooks to be used as portfolios.

Perfect binding is one of the most common methods for photobooks and brochures printing due to its format. This form of binding has a very similar effect as the binding used in paperback books, and one famous international example of perfect binding is that used for the National Geographic. Many paperback books also in fact do use perfect binding due to its usefulness.