Sir Allen Lane was the creator of Penguin Books, which is credited with popularizing high-quality mass-market paperbacks. Paperbacks existed prior to Penguin, but they were often poorly made or ...

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 ...

Readers who don’t want to spend $30 for a new hardcover nonfiction book can no longer count on the release of a lower-cost paperback edition. Traditionally, the paperback would hit the shelves ...

Blurb-free; and blurbed (the paperback edition of Alderton’s hit ... novelist Josie Shapiro turns to Canva to mock up book covers with invented quotes from her favourite authors on them.

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For ₹256.50, a buyer can download Jan Yager’s How to Finish Everything You Start, the no. 1 bestseller on Amazon India’s Kindle store, and start reading it in a few seconds. Amazon India ...

I tend to be hard on my things. I still am. When I read a paperback book, it’s like I’m wrestling with it. Soon the cover is torn and the pages are dog-eared and there’s a giant seam down ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Don’s Paperback Book Exchange gave kids in Albuquerque a chance to stock up on some books for the school year in their last “free books for kids” event of the ...

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 ...

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.