# Debrief: Standard colour at the editor's word, the build at Crown Quarto in two type sizes, and the price for sales > publisher@book.the-ultimate-insider, round 27, 2026-11-01: what was done, as facts. *Source: · site v0.1.306 · generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift.* --- ## What was asked The editor, in this session: "for now we're going to go with standard color ... in the beginning I'm not really interested in the profit, I'm more interested in the sales." Waiting in the mailroom: P2 signed (Crown Quarto, the 0.625 in gutter), two type sizes to compare (A 9.5 pt, B 9 pt), a reprice at Crown Quarto, and the designer's stat tile and source-line style. ## What was done - **His choice recorded** in `KDP.md` with his words, and sent to the conductor for `book.json` (INK1), which is the conductor's to write. - **Crown Quarto** in the build: `book.css` at 7.44 by 9.69 in with the designer's margins, `cover_size.py` defaulting to it, the 45% check's text height. **Two type sizes** as named outputs (`--type A`, `--type B`): the book 192 or 185 pages, the sample 13 in both, every sample page one page (looked at in A). - **Repriced**: Crown Quarto is a large trim for KDP; standard colour costs $8.72 a copy in A, $8.48 in B; the first price that covers printing at 60% is about $14.53 or $14.13. For sales first, $14.99 proposed, the price his. KDP's own setup screen should confirm standard colour at this custom size. - The designer's two additions taken; my NS1 line kept at the end of the fragment. ## What was hard, or inferred - The 6 by 9 prices of last night no longer apply; I kept them in KDP.md marked superseded rather than delete them, since the conductor had put them to him. - 35 images are now over 45% of the text block: the check's share is of a taller page, and the figure cap rose with it; the designer's next pass decides. - Time: about 40 minutes. ## Where this came from The editor's words in this session; the conductor's letters 036 and 037; the designer's 044; kdp.amazon.com help G201834180 and G201834340, read 1 November 2026 (through a sub-agent's fetch). --- *[Site index for agents](../../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://the-ultimate-insider.book.sgit.ai/team/publisher/debriefs/2026-11-01__standard-colour-and-crown-quarto.html)*