If you're trying to decide between buying a hardcover or a paperback book, there are a few different things to consider before you do. There is no definitive right answer as to which type of book is ...

Data from Bowker Books in Print showed a collapse of new adult nonfiction paperback titles by 42% from 2019 to 2024, to just under 40,000. New adult nonfiction hardcover titles fell by 9% over the ...

We were walking our dogs when Karen told me the mass-market paperback--the familiar 5-by-7-inch book you could slip into the back pocket of a pair of jeans -- was dead. It took a moment to understand ...

There’s something about a paperback book that demands to be taken along on a summer adventure. It’s the perfect size for a beach bag, not too heavy a load for your bike basket. They cost less than ...

Redesign? Relaunch? Regret? Take a look at the ways publishers aimed to seduce new audiences by changing up the covers of notable books. By Scott Heller and Miguel Salazar “You never get a second ...

Jessica Kara writes optimistic contemporary YA, as well as fantasy, under the name Jess E. Owen. Her two contemporary novels, A Furry Faux Paw and Don’t Ask If I’m Okay, are available from Page Street ...

Pulp. Beach reads. Trashy stories. Romance novels. These are all examples of paperback books. Maybe it’s not the cream of the crop, the stuff they put on hardcover. But it’s something. It’s in your ...

The most interesting fact in U.S. publishing today is that the paperbacks have become respectable. Cheap paperback reprints and originals have been published in the U.S. for more than a century ...

From the front door you see the books, lots of books. *** used bookstore is generally eccentric. Every used bookstore has to have an obligatory cat. Mass market paperbacks are quietly fading from ...