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

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 ...

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 paperbacks, that fit in your pocket, are disappearing from stores. Why... and what you can do if you are a fan of ...

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 ...

Mass market paperbacks used to be everywhere. They’re cheap, compact and easy to slip into a pocket. But the format that once ...

August is traditionally a kind of purgatory between summer’s beach book season and fall’s parade of prestigious literary releases. That is to say, you don’t always find a lot of great books on the new ...

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 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 Shelly Romero has early memories of going to ...