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It is newly arrived in paperback, and a perfect summer page-turner.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
They are often derided for their cost, and customers declare they will wait till the paperback comes out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
"Then we'll buy the paperback when it comes out," she added.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
The paperback rights for her second book, 1978’s Love Signs, were sold for $2.5 million, establishing an industry record at the time.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
The only other book I noted—or reading material of any sort—was a paperback mystery standing upright between two Oriental bookends on top of the piano.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
“Unlike for mass-market paperbacks, hardcover books were shelved, so it didn’t matter that the books were different sizes,” Margolis says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
Beginning this spring, the Swedish streaming service will allow premium subscribers in the U.S. and U.K. to buy hardcovers and paperbacks through its app, in partnership with Bookshop.org.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Some of the performers fans have travelled from other towns and cities to grab his old paperbacks, some of which contain annotations by Cave.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
The English-language books that are selling abroad are generally cheap paperbacks, printed by American and British publishers as export editions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
His side of my parents’ bedroom grew more cluttered with stacks of used and yellowed paperbacks of famous plays.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
