Gutter press

With Ken-Our-Brilliant-Designer this evening, working on the cover and typestyle of the Mersey Minis series (Volume 1 published in April), my bonnet was suddenly full of bees about the gutter.
The gutter (if you're not familiar with this use of the word) is where the inside margins meet in each double page spread. If the margins are too narrow, the edges of the text fall into the gutter and forces the reader to bend the book back and – often – break its spine.
This drives me nuts. It's something that stirs the bees in my headgear.
The solution that you will find in our books is to make the inside margins wider than the outside ones. A simple answer, but it allows one to read the book without violence.
Have a look at Capsica books and note the generous gutter margins that we provide for our readers. We don't like our books' spines to be snapped for no good reason.