Publishers were disappointed, but not surprised, by Readerlink’s recent decision to stop distributing mass market paperbacks to its accounts, including mass merchandisers, by the end of 2025. In ...

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 ...

While any bookseller will tell you the rule of thumb is that about a year passes between a book’s hardcover premiere and its paperback release, the truth is that some books take a lot longer to make ...

Jacinth Green goes through some of the softcover books she references when supplementing her daughters’ education at home in Herndon, Va. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) Perspective by Nick ...

“Paperback Writer” is certainly a good Beatles song, but it’s not particularly groundbreaking. It’s a fun folk rock song about an interesting character. “Rain,” on the other hand, makes revolutionary ...

I felt a sense of triumph when I received the paperback edition of my book, Shelf Aware. It was a clear sign of the publisher’s belief that the book deserved a wider readership. With a fresh and ...

When The Price of Salt was first published in paperback in 1953, Patricia Highsmith was flooded with thousands of letters from readers. The letters came addressed to the author “Claire Morgan,” the ...

This hardcover box set consists of three full-color hardcover volumes (1,440 total pages) contained in a sturdy slipcase. The collection includes every Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that ever appeared in ...