Method for producing a printed product which has more than four sides, comprising the following method steps: - printing at least two sub-web strands of a printing-substrate web in a web-fed printing press in respectively successive web portions of predetermined length, each having a leading edge (6.1) and a trailing edge (6.2), between which runs an imaginary folding line extending transversely to the web-running direction, wherein the imaginary folding line is offset by 1 to 2 mm in relation to the centre or runs centrally between the leading and trailing edges (6.1, 6.2), - applying glue to at least one adhesive-bonding portion , arranged in the region of the leading and/or trailing edge (6.1, 6.2), on one of the mutually facing sides of the at least two sub-web strands , - guiding the two sub-web strands one above the other, and adhesively bonding the same, in the region of the leading and/or trailing edges (6.1, 6.2), - feeding the adhesively bonded sub-web strands , which have been guided one above the other, to a folder and cutting the sub-web strands along the leading and trailing edges (6.1, 6.2) to form signatures , and also folding the signatures along the imaginary folding line , - delivering the signatures and arranging the same one above the other in a product store , - introducing the stored signatures into a feeder of a collating device such that the adhesively bonded leading edges (6.1) or trailing edge (6.2) are positioned at the front, as seen in the transporting direction of the feeder , - gripping the front sides of the signatures , said front sides being at the front in the transporting direction of the feeder and having the adhesive-bonding portion , and opening the signatures by means of a gripping and opening device , and - feeding the opened signatures to a conveying element of the collating device . - printing at least two sub-web strands of a printing-substrate web in a web-fed printing press in respectively successive web portions of predetermined length, each having a leading edge (6.1) and a trailing edge (6.2), between which runs an imaginary folding line extending transversely to the web-running direction, wherein the imaginary folding line is offset by 1 to 2 mm in relation to the centre or runs centrally between the leading and trailing edges (6.1, 6.2), - applying glue to at least one adhesive-bonding portion , arranged in the region of the leading and/or trailing edge (6.1, 6.2), on one of the mutually facing sides of the at least two sub-web strands , - guiding the two sub-web strands one above the other, and adhesively bonding the same, in the region of the leading and/or trailing edges (6.1, 6.2), - feeding the adhesively bonded sub-web strands , which have been guided one above the other, to a folder and cutting the sub-web strands along the leading and trailing edges (6.1, 6.2) to form signatures , and also folding the signatures along the imaginary folding line , - delivering the signatures and arranging the same one above the other in a product store , - introducing the stored signatures into a feeder of a collating device such that the adhesively bonded leading edges (6.1) or trailing edge (6.2) are positioned at the front, as seen in the transporting direction of the feeder , - gripping the front sides of the signatures , said front sides being at the front in the transporting direction of the feeder and having the adhesive-bonding portion , and opening the signatures by means of a gripping and opening device , and - feeding the opened signatures to a conveying element of the collating device . <EOS>