Anna: Questions about production

Questions I still have include a publisher's involvement in the physical production and binding of the book itself. Taking Technologies of Text alongside this course has made me think a lot about the presentation of a book and how different factors of book production serve different purposes and convey different messages to the reader. To what extent do publisher's contemplate over the design of a book? Are they focused on minuscule details like the font type, size of the margins, and the location of the page numbers? Are books printed and bound in the U.S. or is that an industry that has moved elsewhere? I think, in general, my questions can be summed up as: okay, so we got the author to write an incredible book and we edited the hell out of it so it shines as a text, but what next?