Mass-market paperbacks are smaller and significantly cheaper than trade paperbacks—sometimes called "airport books," mass-market paperbacks are typically available in non-bookstore retail outlets, like airports and supermarkets.
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Tall Lionel hunted old SF paperbacks, Chris Foss covers preferred.
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Here's how to get the best deals (expensive paperbacks notwithstanding).
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Paperback row Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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Paperback Row Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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As a kid, I collected those grubby little "Peanuts" paperbacks.
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During World War II, an effort to arm American troops with books gave rise to Armed Services Editions, miniature paperbacks that troops carried with them, which helped create a new audience for mass-market paperbacks.
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Amazon is trying to get you to put down the paperbacks.
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Near the spare bedroom were bookshelves teeming with mass-market paperbacks.
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They'd even stacked a few splotched and tattered paperbacks beside it.
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Or if you're shy, just scan our roundup of new paperbacks.
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I recently bought a lot of old nurse-romance paperbacks on eBay.
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Just think of the library you would need to store all those paperbacks.
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And on their bookshelf crammed with family photos and paperbacks, was a box.
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Buy more paperbacks and negate all the benefits of investing in e-reading?
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When did a candle-topped pyramid of paperbacks become a symbol of depth?
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Encourage them to accumulate more paperbacks they don't necessarily "need," because wanting is enough.
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Along with a few favorite paperbacks, pack some new magazines for everyone to discover.
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I found a couple of "Saint" paperbacks by Leslie Charteris that I hadn't read.
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The bookshops tend to stock mass-market paperbacks like entire shelves for Nicholas Sparks.
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Growing up, my room was full of shelves upon shelves of paperbacks and hardcovers.
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We know many of you will be attached to paperbacks, and we get it.
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Indie bookstores all over the country devote entire shelves to displaying the handsome paperbacks.
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"FERRANTE FEVER" is no longer restricted to pastel-coloured paperbacks in bookstores across the world.
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My borrowed paperbacks told me that Lewis was from Minnesota, a place I'd never been.
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Could it simply be that the road to fatherhood is paved with mass-market paperbacks?
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He likes winter but not summer, baths but not showers, hardback books but not paperbacks.
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In those early years the challenge for purveyors of high-quality, inexpensive paperbacks was enormous.
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The paperbacks are printed with cheap bindings and sell for as much as $210 a copy.
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Best of all, they aren't exorbitantly priced — the paperbacks are £7.19 online and the hardcovers £13.49.
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This may seem too much to ask of entertainment, suspense films, and paperbacks, but stories matter.
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It wasn't all that long ago I used to jam several paperbacks into my carry-on.
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Random House had hardcover imprints like Alfred A. Knopf and Pantheon Books and published Ballantine paperbacks.
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He raised Vintage prices, betting that buyers would pay more for serious paperbacks in handsome editions.
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I collect weird sex pulp paperbacks, especially with the outdated slang word "chicken" in the title.
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I became addicted to them in high school, when the books were reprinted as Bantam paperbacks.
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When it comes to personal property, like couches and paperbacks, the law allows abandonment, within limits.
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Mass-market paperbacks are printed on flimsy paper with the lines of text packed tightly together; they're far less expensive to produce and ship than trade paperbacks, which are identical to their corresponding novels' hardcover editions on the inside but bound in paper instead of cloth.
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Walk through a bookstore and you can see $5.99 paperbacks along one wall and omg-how-much?
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Best of all there are his pretty little drawings done on the title pages of old paperbacks.
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Scrolls of papyrus were portable; Roman commanders used them as the equivalent of paperbacks, tucked into pockets.
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The library system also has an Espresso Book Machine, a device that prints, binds and trims paperbacks.
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The show includes issues of DuDa, printed ephemera, Ranchouse paperbacks, and several of Alatalo's newer digital works.
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Second, they're sold as trade paperbacks, which are physically wider and more expensive than mass market romance novels.
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For the same price you could get 11 months' subscription to Starz, or a dozen of Gaiman's paperbacks.
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I prefer paperbacks, especially American ones and the French Livres de Poche which are particularly flexible and lithe.
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I scanned not for seashells but for the titles of paperbacks splayed on beach chairs and sandy towels.
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There are also first editions by out-of-state writers, pulp paperbacks and a variety of vintage typewriters.
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Though single-issue sales were lackluster, some comics fare better as hardcover collected editions or softcover trade paperbacks.
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I was collecting Bone once a year into paperbacks, and my wife and I were self-publishing them.
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Mostly I went for the paperbacks; I had a book-a-day habit, and hardcovers were a rare treat.
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She returned with paperbacks by Sartre, Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir and albums by Charles Aznavour and Georges Brassens.
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New Sentences — From "Tonight I'm Someone Else" (Holt Paperbacks, 2018, Page 181), a collection of essays by Chelsea Hodson.
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Open Book Grady Hendrix's "Paperbacks From Hell" beautifully displays the cover designs for hundreds of mass-market horror novels.
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In the first year since The Sewing Machine was published it's sold a whopping 50,000 ebooks and 2,23 paperbacks.
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This artwork will be removed from subsequent printings, digital versions, and trade paperbacks and disciplinary action is being taken.
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It's National Bookmobile Day, and some independent bookstores are using vehicles to bring hardcovers and paperbacks to areas without bookstores.
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The satisfying thing about mass-market paperbacks is that, once finished, their spines shattered, they look more obliterated than read.
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You can also try specialized organizations, like Books Through Bars, a Philadelphia group that gives paperbacks to people in prison.
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In the early decades of the 20th century, these covers were standalone paintings first, before being mass-produced on the paperbacks.
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He read a lot, mostly thrillers and science fiction, pulp paperbacks he bought from secondhand bookshops for a dollar or less.
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Regional-language movies and children's books are focusing on such issues that big-budget Bollywood films and mass paperbacks generally ignore.
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And the show's title sequence has a look inspired by the King paperbacks that were all but inescapable during the decade.
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According to Alexander McCall Smith's website, he has four books coming out in 2017, plus paperbacks from last year's hardcover publications.
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Those for paperbacks usually depict only the front, as with Nabokov's "Speak Memory," whose white cover Wolfe set aflutter with brushwork.
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I could remember hours and hours of sitting in the rocking chair, nursing a baby, and reading through these same paperbacks.
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I looked around confused, half expecting a robed figure to hop out of one of the bookshelves filled with fantasy paperbacks.
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Another place people are likely to encounter mass-market paperbacks is in schools, where they are popular due to their low cost.
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If these data points exist at all, they are probably stored in big paperbacks stacked in a corner of some agency's office.
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Although many people still prefer good-old paperbacks, digital natives and people who travel a lot love their ebooks and e-readers.
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Many people also buy their comic books in collected volumes (trade paperbacks) and/or digitally, and the digital market has been growing.
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They were going to publish two paperbacks a month, and I was being offered a chance to write half the list myself.
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For two years, the visual artist Robin Treadwell managed Williamsburg's Book Thug Nation, a leftist bookstore specializing in cheap literary fiction paperbacks.
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There were the paperbacks, hundreds of them jammed onto shelves, that her dying husband had told her to throw away after reading.
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At a shelf in the corner, behind a rack of discount paperbacks, her husband Wolfgang was working as quickly as he could.
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With jukeboxes, pulp paperbacks, records and B-movie posters everywhere, the apartment doubles as a virtual museum of rock 'n' roll ephemera.
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An open can of Miller beer sits atop one stack of paperbacks, partially obscuring the title of John Updike's novel, Rabbit Is Rich.
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The qualities of some of Mrs May's ministers, meanwhile, are captured well by Roger Hargreaves's series of ultra-slim paperbacks, the Mr Men.
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Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series of paperbacks on noteworthy rock and pop albums have clearly been designed with the jacket pocket in mind.
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I know lots of people have strong feelings about which book formats they prefer, between printed books, e-ink readers, phones, paperbacks, etc.
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I'm not proud, but it's just that my eye always turns first to the dollar bin of paperbacks, the ephemeral, forgotten and weird.
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Look through the Williamsburg store's plywood shelves and you'll find glossy paperbacks as well as photocopied-and-stapled booklets with a D.I.Y. aesthetic.
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I grew up reading my father's science-fiction collection, a huge collection of those pulpy mass-market paperbacks from the '50s and '60s.
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They just materialized in the house when I was 12, a row of well-thumbed paperbacks, in the bookcase under the basement stairs.
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A sadist who enjoys beating confessions out of suspects, Wilson is akin to Mike Hammer, the toughest private eye of early 1950s paperbacks.
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My Penguin Classics edition—at 1,499 pages—dwarfs the other paperbacks on my shelf, more like a phone book than like a novel.
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I have to hold that book, although I actually prefer paperbacks to hardcovers, maybe from the time when I couldn't afford the latter.
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Book pundits all over the web are blaming Amazon for its habit of aggressively pricing hardbacks and paperbacks after losing control of ebook pricing.
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Penguin Books, on the other hand, was founded in 1935, with the goal of printing quality literature as inexpensive paperbacks for the mass market.
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Perfect for the booklover who likes reading, history, or just wants to know how we got from clay tablets to libraries full of paperbacks.
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You will find a couple of shelves full of old Richard Stark paperbacks that I asked him to sign when I eventually met him.
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That includes sales of single issues at comic shops and newsstands, as well as book channel sales of trade paperbacks, or collected volumes of comics.
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That said, mass-market paperbacks have been on a precipitous decline lately, though TKAM's success, particularly in the education market, makes it a notable exception.
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The U.K. paperbacks got a makeover to celebrate the 20-year anniversary, while the U.S. editions got new designs by Kazu Kibuishi several years ago.
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Instead, there are belts with mirrored buckles the size of paperbacks ($1,980) and iPhone cases (to house digital Balmain wardrobes) embossed with the label's logo.
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Here in Cliché Shores, you can live a quiet, sanitized life surrounded by all those hackneyed themes and characters you expect from lightweight escapist paperbacks.
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Men in crime novels by John Grisham and Tom Clancy disappear or fake their own deaths regularly, like their cultural predecessors in pulpy noir paperbacks.
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In advance for the movie's release, DC Comics is releasing paperbacks detailing the back stories of all three of the Birds of Prey female leads.
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Scribner and Skyhorse both appear to be planning to release their editions as trade paperbacks, with generous margins and widely spaced, easy-to-read print.
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If you opt to self-publish, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, an online publishing platform for digital books and paperbacks, is an ideal place to start.
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I rarely reread books, but a few years back, I was cleaning out my closet and found a box of old paperbacks from my youth.
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My friends and I have loved the Cupcake Diaries series, paperbacks with pink covers that described four best friends and their adventures together, making cupcakes.
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The title of one of the paperbacks is Raketen Fahrt (Rocket Ride) while the other is Der Vortoss in Den Weltentraum (The Advance into Space).
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On the internet, the "echo chambers" of old media — the '90s buzzword for partisan talk radio shows and political paperbacks — have been amplified and automated.
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Orwell, armed with a rifle, spent three days guarding the POUM building from a roof across the street, passing the time by reading Penguin paperbacks.
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Beyond her choice of source imagery, Marrin's playfulness also comes through in the titles of her works, which could double as the names of pulp paperbacks.
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In the early '90s, supermarket tabloids like Weekly World News and airport paperbacks like Whitley Strieber's "Communion" were filled with tales of U.F.O.s and alien abductions.
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So those of you who are fussy commuters may want to opt for the Kindle version, which can be obtained for slightly cheaper than the paperbacks.
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I might be biased, but I believe no household is complete without the "Harry Potter" series, whether it's the original paperbacks or a new boxed set.
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In 5003, Pocket Books introduced pocket-size mass-market paperbacks in the United States, and sold them in department stores, newsstands and drugstores around the country.
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You can tell from a glance at the racks of paperbacks in your local drugstore that many readers still seek the imaginative release horror fiction provides.
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Perhaps that's why it is one of the best-selling children's paperbacks of all time, according to Publishers Weekly, and an easy qualifier for this list.
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Especially since they are published as cheap paperbacks, this seems especially necessary for understanding Alatalo's publishing vision, to which placing her artworks in homes was central.
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I like George Orwell, Ghost Box Records, current London architecture, brass bands, Billy Bragg, Penguin Classic paperbacks, the Radiophonic Workshop, the Smiths... these things are all great.
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Sales of printed hardcover books grew nearly 11 percent from 2013 to 2017, while those of paperbacks rose 19953 percent, according to the Association of American Publishers.
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The Folio Society's books are aimed toward collectors and serious readers: its offerings aren't paperbacks or hardcovers that you'll find on the shelves of your local bookstore.
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Sales of printed hardcover books grew nearly 11 percent from 2013 to 2017, while those of paperbacks rose 17 percent, according to the Association of American Publishers.
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Not only are the wooden versions generally proper cuts of wood rather than PVC, they're sturdy enough to hold 12 bottles: more than adequate for your paperbacks.
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Gallery 16 Editions has repackaged those now collectors' items paperbacks into one fun and celebratory volume, a time capsule of a mostly lost local way of life.
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Beneath a vase of dried and very ornate autumn flowers, I noted several self-help paperbacks on her nightstand, including one on living with the 12 Steps.
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The good news is that print revenue was up 3.4 percent in April, primarily in trade paperbacks, with some solid grown in young adult print and religious titles.
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Revenue is down in ebooks because Amazon, using their mercantile might, has been aggressively selling paperbacks and hardbacks after publishers took away their power to control ebook pricing.
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The Causeway Bay Bookstore sells paperbacks highly critical of the Chinese leadership in Beijing, that often contain details of the private lives of senior leaders and their families.
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Open Book The orange-and-white paperbacks that Penguin introduced in the 1930s have probably inspired a loyal following for their graphic design enjoyed by no other publisher.
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The level of organization is especially impressive when you compare it with typical sales that place stacks of random paperbacks next to cosmetics organizers and small kitchen appliances.
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For hardback books (but also some paperbacks), their typically ragged dust jackets are usually splayed open to expose front, back and spine — more than in the final piece.
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The Causeway Bay Bookstore sells paperbacks highly critical of the Chinese leadership in Beijing and often containing details of the private lives of senior leaders and their families.
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Beneath the steady gaze of Naxie, the store's calico cat, visitors will find rare and antiquarian books, new and used paperbacks, modern classics and troves of Greek literature.
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Maura was also the author of more than 25 crossword books, including a little-known series of paperbacks, "Crosswords With Themes," for Playboy Press in 1979 and 1980.
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The most popular mass-market paperback of the last few years is almost certainly the stout paperbacks of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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The $120,000 renovation also created an extra bathroom for residents' use and a library nook, now outfitted with a few chairs, a table and donated paperbacks and board games.
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She made a cameo on "Guiding Light," appeared on the covers of young adult paperbacks like "Gossip Girl" and once read lines for a film role with Alec Baldwin.
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As a young model, she appeared on the covers of young adult paperbacks and in Ralph Lauren catalogs before going to work for Ms. Trump's apparel and licensing brand.
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After 10 minutes, the man brought two well-thumbed paperbacks to the register: Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novels "The Garden of Rama" and "Rama II." My first sales!
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This look — with its softly clashing colors and soaring stalagmites — seems designed to instigate, at least in some, flashbacks to stacks of yellowing paperbacks and lovingly played rock albums.
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Available in a pair of trade paperbacks, it's worth reading beginning to end to experience some of the best storytelling — superhero, sci-fi, or otherwise — 2016 had to offer.
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Cheeseburgers, milkshakes, bacon pancakes, and other assorted diner favorites are cheap and quickly consumed, the culinary equivalent of the exact type of trashy paperbacks after which Pulp Fiction is named.
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Following a major restructuring earlier this year, it's dropped some of the more specific lists it used to maintain, like those for mass-market paperbacks, e-books, and graphic novels.
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Labeled, not so modestly, the "Gutenberg press of the 22.5st century" by its creators, the machine sits in a back corner of the shop, humming as it turns PDFs into paperbacks.
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At first, I disliked having to test them and eagerly awaited going back to my paperbacks, but then I started traveling a lot for work and something clicked: Ebooks are good!
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"When I was a young reader with a library card, I relied on those lists at the end of paperbacks to help me make my way through the stacks," she said.
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I have no idea what I will do with nurse-romance paperbacks, but it seems like there might be some kind of tone or format that I could mine them for.
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Featuring 3D collages made from Batman comics, sculptures carved from archaeology books, and massive archways built from recycled paperbacks, Art on Paper 2019 celebrates the fine art potential of an undervalued material.
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And so I did and I thought, "Oh, God, I want to reread them," but I can't afford my own books, so I found some really tatty Penguin paperbacks from the 1980s.
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The following is an excerpt from 'Sin-a-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties,' a new anthology about the smut-filled porno novels that sold by the millions throughout the decade.
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The tight printing of mass-market paperbacks makes them slightly harder to read and hence unpopular with adult buyers, but it also makes them budget-friendly, and thus extremely popular with schools.
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"We have not seen any cannibalization in sales either in periodical comics or trade paperbacks," Gerry Gladston, chief marketing officer at New York City–based Midtown Comics, one of the industry's leading retailers.
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In the days leading up to the festival every bookshop in the Catalan capital is packed with people, tables piled high with shiny paperbacks perpetually ringed by shoppers seeking the perfect literary gift.
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A lifetime of reading paperbacks has taught King this well; the opening chapters of The Gunslinger see Roland roving through a barren landscape and recalling his unfortunate stint in the town of Tull.
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Prompted by a move across town or the sudden urge to redecorate, you decide to get rid of an old couch or a stack of used paperbacks that were taking up precious space.
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In the process, they paved the way for Vertigo (DC's soon-to-shutter imprint for creator-owned comics aimed at mature readers) and helped popularize the practice of collecting comic storylines into trade paperbacks.
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Operating out of a cafe in Limehouse, East London, there are large wooden tables that act as communal desks, shelves of worn paperbacks, sunken leather sofas, and a small kitchen tucked away out back.
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No one was required to bring dog-eared paperbacks to the conscious-raising groups that feminists pioneered in the 1960s and 1970s, but these gatherings did mirror book clubs in a number of ways.
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In those bookstores I was drawn as if by pheromone to New Directions paperbacks — they had about them irresistible intimations of New York coffeehouses, French cigarettes, bare mattresses on cold floors and major depression.
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The interior juxtaposed pops of color — a coral nightstand, fuchsia throw pillows — with nautical accents and included a stack of vacation-ready paperbacks ("Saltwater Buddha: a Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea").
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She hit the top of Amazon's Kindle eBooks best seller list seven times last year (a record), and has now set up her own print label in order to supply paperbacks to UK retailers.
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Digital comics, trade paperbacks, distribution difficulties, and a persistent and not entirely undeserved reputation for being exactly like the comic book store on The Simpsons all make it hard out there for a print (store).
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The glare of the overhead light is reflected by the laminated covers of the paperbacks, which have been stacked near the tondo's lower edge, making one cover hard to read and the other partially legible.
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"What are you reading?" she asks me, picking up one of the two paperbacks I've brought with me, scanning the back cover and opening it at random to bury her nose in the crepey musk.
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He revelled in downtown pleasures—record stores, anonymity—and wandered from bookstore to bookstore, amassing piles of paperbacks that he would coax a friend, who worked at an airline, to ship to Jamaica for him.
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My brother and I would wind the aisles of books, load up our tote bags with dozens of paperbacks, devour them anywhere we could, and then return a few weeks later to repeat the process.
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He ordered much larger first printings than his predecessor had, often doubling them — an aggressiveness seemingly borne of confidence that he would be able to sell them as easily as he had mass-marketed paperbacks.
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There are two German paperbacks by Max Valier (1895-1930), an Austrian rocketry pioneer who in 1927 helped found the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR–"Spaceflight Society"), the world's largest amateur rocketry society at that time.
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When Reservoir Dogs debuted at Sundance in 1992, it marked the arrival of a new voice in American cinema, combining influences from 1950s dime-store paperbacks, 1960s European New Wave films, 1970s TV, and 1980s theater.
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Compared to all of this, my Switch is the Penguin Pocket Paperbacks of games: easy to carry, convenient to take out or put away, and doesn't immediately insist on making itself the center of every activity.
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Since the first flimsy folding table appeared in 1986 bearing a few tattered paperbacks, Kirk Davidson's book-vending displays have become part of the permanent landscape along a sidewalk on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
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The air is scented with a rosewater-tinged infusion ("It comes in through the air-conditioners," a saleswoman whispered), and the shelves are stocked with vintage paperbacks by Françoise Sagan, Stendhal, Victor Hugo and André Malraux.
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Nunez, in her memoir, set in the Straus period, wrote of the Riverside Drive apartment: Its main feature was the growing number of books, but they were mostly paperbacks, and the shelves were cheap pine board.
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He would often accept barter as payment for services rendered: a custom suit for a custom bed; as many paperbacks as he could carry from the New York Review of Books offices in return for shelving.
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But is my choice of turning to a stack of Agatha Christie paperbacks a virtuous form of self-care and an admirable coping strategy, while thumbing through Instagram on your cellphone is a self-indulgent timesuck?
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Just like trade paperbacks give single-issues a second life as bound collections, digital comics take "some of the pressure off the individual comic book by adding an additional revenue stream for basically zero expense," he explained.
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He seemed a bit stunned by what looked like well-read but battered and foxed editions of his old Fawcett paperbacks; they are still precious to me with the unforgiving and distant Parker as their central character.
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While Monteiro says he's sold over 10,000 copies of the book so far, only 150 paperbacks have been printed since he changed the cover, which isn't a lot of opportunities for it to catch the right person's eye.
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Dog-eared tomes in college bags; shiny review copies dropped in by critics; bland boxes of publishers' remainders, and tantalising parcels from private estates; leather-bound volumes with uncut pages, and paperbacks rescued by vagrants from the trash.
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A used-book vendor had parked his formica table of curated paperbacks in front of the university library where I worked, and I wandered over to examine his wares, idly picking up Eco's The Name of the Rose.
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The intrigue: Scribner, Melville House and Skyhorse Publishing are among those planning to have paperbacks out before the end of the month, with prices ranging from $15 for the Scribner book to $9.99 for the Melville House one.
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Before I pressed play on the new audio version of "Murder on the Orient Express," I visited a particular corner of my den, a shelf crammed with muzzy-edged paperbacks, some of them missing chunks of their covers.
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Up some stairs and down a corridor, the din of a gathering poured from a door, and they entered a small apartment lined with long libraries and heaps of paperbacks that houses Mr. Seidenberg's clandestine secondhand bookstore, Brazenhead.
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With a $20133 wedding dowry from Ms. Ballantine's father, the couple established Penguin U.S.A. by importing British editions of Penguin paperbacks, starting with "The Invisible Man" by H. G. Wells and "My Man Jeeves" by P. G. Wodehouse.
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The huge space was mine alone, but when I peeled off my bathing suit and searched for my reflection in the mirrored wall, I saw abandoned flip-flops, damp paperbacks and bottles of shampoo — the traces of other lives.
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" This is what she takes on every trip: Books "I think we all travel with five paperbacks: the one you're reading, the one you realize you've already read, two you can't stand and the one you finally settle on.
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That meant that by the time I was 13 or 14, I had access to lots of war books filled with sex and violence, as well as trashy, soft-core porn paperbacks featuring detectives, medieval knights and hit men.
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And you're more likely to end up in the emergency room due to a pogo-stick accident than to win this Powerball drawing — the odds of that are 1 in 26,2780, according to The Book of Odds (William Morrow Paperbacks, 21).
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While my mother toured J. L. Hudson, a Detroit department store, I skittered over to a rack of paperbacks, most with a pastel image of a girl in a skirt on the cover and a square of plaid on the spine.
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I skulked around with my ratty paperbacks feeling cooler than but vaguely intimidated by the bright-eyed future kids who had modems at home and built their own computer-based systems that were able to converse with people around the world.
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There were the paperbacks by Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein — "that whole crew who had imagined the future of the human race as I saw it now being played out by Sputnik and Apollo," Mr. Overbye said.
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Digitally (where sales aren't reported by comic book companies thoroughly), we know that Ms. Marvel has traditionally been one of Marvel's bestsellers and that over 500,000 trade paperbacks (collected, physical editions of the comic book) have been sold as of 202021.
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Among the first to recognize the potential of mass-market paperbacks, Mr. Minton acquired Berkley Books in 583 and turned thrillers by Lawrence Sanders and spy novels by Len Deighton into page-turning triumphs and their authors into household names.
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Spun out from Simon & Schuster's series of cheap paperbacks and then spun out once more into a six-picture series of feature films in the '40s, the title gained the most prominence as a radio serial running 526 episodes from 1941 to 1952.
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They were mostly artless—the mind reels at how many photos there are of squinting men named Greg still out there in the world, stuck in paperbacks or moldering in attics or awaiting a long-overdue pulping—and they were impossibly legion.
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Or perhaps some fluke of literary statistics — the glut of pulp paperbacks in the first half of the 20th century, for example — will skew the whole experiment completely, leaving us with a bunch of AIs that act and talk like tough detectives.
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We have a table up front that's beach-themed — lots of blue and white covers, lots of paperbacks that people want to pick up and grab, lots of Elin Hilderbrand — and that table pays our bills for the rest of the year.
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Unable to afford another storefront, he relocated his heaps of books into the apartment he was living in down the block and, as he plied his trade selling paperbacks on city streets over the next decade, the heaps grew into mountainous piles.
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ARIELLE WALSHASHEVILLE, N.C. Dear Arielle, Although it seems like ancient history now, among the books that fascinated me in childhood were the thick mass-market paperbacks of Jean M. Auel's ice age Earth's Children series that I filched from my mother's shelf.
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Much in the spirit of an adult woman with a Disney+ subscription and a lingering fondness for the concept of mix CDs, I have a technological resistance to e-books, and prefer paperbacks for their familiarity as much as the experience they provide.
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He has seen tears, heard elaborate lies, and been asked by inmates about how to find peace He got hooked on crime as a child—in part by roaming the mean streets of the ward, but also by reading true-crime paperbacks.
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Amid circular periodical stands displaying paperbacks like "Vultures of Paradise Valley" and $750 copies of "The Book of Common Prayer" in glass cases, guests in crochet dresses and with large shoulder tattoos of eggplants sipped wine from plastic cups and beer from bottles.
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"Four of the undergraduate history students elected to work on a curatorial project examining themes of sex, stereotyping, and violence using the Wolfsonian–FIU Library's collection of pulp periodicals and paperbacks and linking them to pre-code and film noir Hollywood cinema," Luca explained.
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And then a college friend, Barbara Zimmerman — married to Jason Epstein, a young publishing whiz at Doubleday — suggested to her husband that Ted would be the perfect person to create the jacket art for Anchor Books, the new line of quality paperbacks Jason was launching.
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While paperbacks and textbooks — some of which are 245 years old — line the walls of Preston's classroom, he spends a lot of time looking at a screen, either on a Chromebook or at the front of the classroom, where a large interactive display hangs.
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Which isn't to say that he's spent that time sitting around getting through the extensive stacks of first editions and paperbacks that litter his flat, a collection crammed with the kind of esoteric material you'd expect from a songwriter beloved by a certain kind of bookish music fan.
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Laurence Kirshbaum, who worked at Warner in the 1970s and ′0003s, said in a telephone interview that Mr. Kaminsky had been an entrepreneurial, risk-taking executive as the company grew quickly from a mass-market publisher of genre paperbacks to one that also competed heavily to sign major hardcovers.
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Whedon (a longtime comics fan) was heavily indebted to Marvel comics in how he told his story, and his conception of Buffy as a series of "arcs" with main villains is very similar to how the comics industry compiles individual issues into sturdier "trade paperbacks," which are then sold in bookstores.
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Not too many years after the success of Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight," Harkness, surveying the racks of paperbacks at an airport bookstore, was struck by the fact that so many of the books "suggested vampires, daemons, witches, fairies, werewolves and all manner of supernatural creatures were living among us," she recalls.
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Other, more upscale additions included a hot dog stand (largely a 7-Eleven staple, to nitpick), a meat counter with fancy, weirdly anthropomorphized sausages (on which perched the necessary black bodega cat), and, oddest of all, a shelf with paperbacks, records, and even cassette tapes (was this a bodega for hipsters?).
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The kiddie sociopath with the thousand-yard glower may be somewhat too easy a go-to in thrillers, but anyone who grew up on mass-market paperbacks for which the cover art was some forbidding version of a blood-spattered, blankly staring broken doll will feel an almost nostalgic connection to this novel.
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This material, much of it on loan from the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University, is supplemented by LP album covers (Sun Ra, Kurtis Blow) and Chester Himes paperbacks, along with work by some two dozen contemporary artists working within, or with reference to, a pop-culture groove.
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It's an odd thing because I barely ever take them out and read them: I still use the old trade paperbacks for that, because they were what I grew up on and I think they feel lighthearted and playful in a way that's more fitting for Calvin & Hobbes than the heavy, sober hardcover collections.
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" AUTHOR OF "A Gambler's Anatomy"BOOKSTORE Red Gap Books, a used and rare bookstore in Blue Hill, Me. RECOMMENDS 'Broken River' by J. Robert Lennon "For years now my most reliable beach reading has been Ross Macdonald and Barbara Pym, in old paperbacks which are only improved by salt air and potato-chip-greasy fingers.
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In trying to move from their lives to their ideas, both Booker and Gillibrand lose their way and end up writing a lot about their clothes and their diets, producing books that read like the sort of self-help paperbacks you'd see on a rack next to the drugstore cash register: Selfies in Courage.
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From the tall and narrow design of Mick Slack's Walking In Place series (think of paperbacks that slide into your back pocket), to the rich paper stock selected for the fashion-inspired images of Bec Parson's Lone Dove, the attention to detail in each of their publications emphasizes how "traditional" books come alive through mindful design.
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Trans scholar Susan Stryker noted in her book Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback that many of the most famous publishers of LGBTQ literature in post-World War II America — most of them producing pulp fiction dime-store paperbacks — did not stray from topics of gender reassignment operations and cross-dressing.
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The way comic book sales figures have traditionally been tabulated, as well as the lack of solid figures from digital sales, could skew Captain Marvel's numbers (fans who buy comics as collected trade paperbacks or online instead of going into a brick-and-mortar store aren't counted), but that doesn't fully explain the lackluster sales of the comic.
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I know that its former neighbour It's Not About the Bike has been relegated to my hallway bookshelf of forgotten paperbacks, because once again I can't bring myself to throw away a book but I know it would be useless to donate it, only to join its brethren laying in exile in our nation's op shops.
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Today, books fill the whole shop, on the shelves, on the long tables, at the front desk; there are paperbacks and hardcover books; fiction, history, crime; a terrific section on New York City that includes the first book printed by the Three Lives Press: "The Last Leaf," O. Henry's short story about art and life in old Greenwich Village.
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I think everyone knows I'm an omnivore, and so there are battered paperbacks and 18th-century volumes, fairy tales and a shelf on Buddhism, and a shelf on hope and activism, and books on night and darkness, on butterflies and on bison, on mosses and albatrosses, and a long shelf sloping from Western history to environmental history to walking and geography and cities.
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In these books, one finds a writer so enthralled with his subject, be it detective fiction (Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir, 1981), low-budget exploitation cinema (Castaways of the Image Planet, 2002), or heavy-rotation pop music (Sonata for Jukebox, 2011), that his writing becomes a means of turning reception into a scene of primary creation.
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