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Book lovers are feeling the squeeze as book prices climb, and publishers peel away from the cheaper mass market paperback. The New York Times recently noted the disappearance of cheap books you could ...

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 ...

No matter which way you look at it, sales of mass market paperbacks have been in steady decline since 2017. NPD BookScan data shows that unit sales fell 31.5% in 2021 compared to 2017, while the ...

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 ...

We must end 2025 with a final farewell in the world of books. Rest in peace, mass market paperbacks. As reported by Publishers Weekly, book distributor ReaderLink will “stop distributing mass market ...