The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles.

Mass market paperback books are being phased out and will soon be discontinued. Publishers Weekly reported that ReaderLink, ...

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 ...

Publishers Weekly reported that mass market paperbacks have stopped being distributed to North American booksellers by the one of the largest distributors.

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 ...

Good news: Jennifer Egan’s latest novel is hitting paperback shelves this week, along with titles on the beauty and significance of shorelines, the workplace revolution launched by stewardesses in 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 ...

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 about a ...

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 ...

In the first nine months of the year ebook sales have declined 3.9% and generated over $770.9 million dollars. People are still buying the digital format of course, but the real money is with ...