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 ...

Remember reading small, mass market paperbacks? For around $7, you got a book you could carry in a purse or pocket. Why they ...

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 ...

Mass market paperback books are being phased out and will soon be discontinued. Publishers Weekly reported that ReaderLink, the largest distributor of hardcover, trade, and paperback books to ...

It is the end of an era for the paperback books that reached generations of readers with their affordable prices, convenient size and reliable ubiquity. At the end of 2025, ReaderLink, one of the ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Amazon digital book juggernaut seems unstoppable at the moment and looks like it would chew up anything and everything that comes its way. It did so with the hardcover books back in July 2010 and ...

You will soon be able to print your own copy of rare and hard-to-find books thanks to a deal between Google and On Demand Books, the maker of the Espresso Book Machine. Dubbed the “ATM for books,” the ...

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. To avoid an ex-boyfriend’s wedding, a failed novelist attends literary events around the world.