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This gave Trautman the idea that would lead to the production of Armed Services Editions, or ASEs—small, lightweight paperback books, which began shipping out to soldiers in late 1943.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
It is newly arrived in paperback, and a perfect summer page-turner.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 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
She sets her paperback facedown on her lap.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
For the next few months, I’m setting aside my beach bag’s slender paperbacks and picking up “Middlemarch.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
"With fiction here, most people buy paperbacks, the only market for hardback fiction is first editions," he said.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
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
A short distance away is a shelf of vintage mystery paperbacks that, when pressed in the correct spots, opens onto a kind of grotto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
Her hair spilled to one side when she kneeled amid boxes of old records and paperbacks.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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