Hi, all. I need some quick advice on trim size.
I'm about to publish book one in a new series. It's about 120,000 words. Books in my previous series were also that word count, and my trim size was 5x8. They are chunky books, and I like how they turned out and have had comments from readers at cons who say they love chunky books. The problem is the cost to print is high, and I make very little money because I don't want to set the price at $20 each, which seems high for a paperback from an unknown like me.
So, do I choose a bigger trim size for this new series? Will readers care that the books in this new series don't match my other series when sitting on a bookshelf?
Is it okay for them to be taller but not wider, or wider but not taller?
Should I just go with 5x8 again so they're all the same size?
What trim size is most common right now? (Amazon says 6x9, which seems large to me.)
(I think this is my first post in the "new" forum, too, so yay!