The so-called ‘pocket book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US, the latest sign of an ongoing shift in how people are choosing to read ...

Mass market paperbacks are disappearing as sales plummet. The rise of e-books and trade editions has led to the decline of ...

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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 ...

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with publisher Esther Margolis about the end of the era of mass market paperbacks. These inexpensively made books were once staples in most grocery and drug stores. There was ...

There’s something about a paperback book, that fading feel of a flexible, tangible book, of buying one used and finding weird notes scribbled in the margins, the musty smell after it sat in a garage, ...

The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles. You may never buy a new one again. Credit...Photographs by Tony Cenicola ...

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 ...

Publishers are increasingly ditching nonfiction paperback books, much to the chagrin of authors. For years, the standard model of book sales has been for publishers to open with a more expensive ...

The cover illustrations of the drugstore paperback pulp novel have become a lost art. But for the first several decades of the 20th century, many commercial artists created striking images using ...