Book cover stock

http://www.bestbookprinting.com/app/webroot/blog/?p=109

Coated One Side (C1s) seems to be the most common stock for paperback book covers.This is probably what would be most appropriate for my book covers. Unfortunately this seems hard to find unless buying in bulk. I think I'll have to find some alternative stock elsewhere.

http://connect.lulu.com/t5/Product-Pricing-Information/Binding-options-and-their-page-counts/ta-p/33673

This page also says something interesting: Your book must have 70-80 pages for text to appear on the spine. Very few of the stories I'm illustrating have that many, so realistically, if they were to be bound in their actual form no text would be able to go on the spine.