A slipcase is a five-sided box, usually made of high-quality cardboard, into which binders,

book A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arr ...

s or book sets are ''slipped'' for protection, leaving the

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exposed. Special editions of books are often slipcased for a stylish appearance when placed on a

bookshelf A bookcase, or bookshelf, is a piece of furniture with horizontal shelves, often in a cabinet, used to store books or other printed materials. Bookcases are used in private homes, public and university libraries, offices, schools, and booksto ...

. A few publishers, such as the

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, publish all their books in slipcases. Protective slipcases may be issued for cassettes,

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s instead of or in addition to the more common jewel cases or DVD

keep case A keep case or poly-box is a type of packaging, most commonly used with DVDs and Blu-ray videos (and sometimes CDs). Besides DVD-Video films, keep cases are very common with most disc-based video games since the PlayStation 2, and they are also ...

, and may be chosen for aesthetic or economic reasons. Larger slipcases that are designed to house one or more jewel cases or DVD keep cases are often used in packaging for

special edition The terms special edition, limited edition, and variants such as deluxe edition, or collector's edition, are used as a marketing incentive for various kinds of products, originally published products related to the arts, such as books, prints, r ...

releases of CDs or DVDs.

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* Publishing Containers Book design {{Book-art-stub

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