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 ...

We must end 2025 with a final farewell in the world of books. Mass market paperbacks were primarily positioned as portable, even disposable, low cost and even lowbrow as they were significantly ...

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with publisher Esther Margolis about the end of the era of mass market paperbacks. These inexpensively made books were once staples in most grocery and drug stores.

The final chapter has been written for Offset Paperback Manufacturers (OPM), based in Dallas, Pa., with the end of May closure of what, in its heyday, was among the largest paperback book ...

If you are looking for a new read this weekend, we’ve got a variety of titles on offer, from fairy tales and American comics to barn-burning histories on influential immigrant cooks and the infamous ...

Full disclosure: I get most of my reading done on my Kindle. But when I simply must get my hands on a physical copy of a new book release or time-tested favorite, I prefer paperback. Sure, hardcover ...

Time again for a round of Paperback Picks! This month: some impressive follow-up novels from bestselling authors, an Oscar-winning actor’s poignant memoir, a truly hilarious political satire, and more ...

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 ...

“Twilight” fans desperate for something fresh to sink their fangs into will get some tasty new morsels from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers early next year. The publisher has announced the ...

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. It’s in your ...

There’s a photograph of me at about age 10, standing by a seaplane down in the Bahamas on a trip with my father and stepmother, a stack of books under my arm. Look closely and you’ll see something ...