Is there any way to change the default location (spacing) for new artboards?

When creating a new artboard in an existing document, the default spacing is always 0.2778 inch. I find this spacing extremely inconvenient. For example, I want to quickly create an 8-page document, so I click on "New Artboard" 8 times. But I can only layout content on one page at a time. It would be much more convenient if I could just move/copy my first page layout by nice whole numbers like 9 inches to quickly fill the lineup of pages, instead of having to figure out what 8.5 + .2778 is, and then add that to itself 7 times.

Is there any way to set the default to 1/2 inch, or any other reasonable number? I can't believe there is no way to change this to some other unit or scale. It's not a round number in either picas or millimeters.