paperback
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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
Repackaged, deluxe paperback editions of the other titles in the “Patternist” series — “Patternmaster,” “Mind of My Mind,” “Wild Seed” and “Clay’s Ark” — will be released June 23, the day after Butler’s birthday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
He unrolls the plan from its tube and spreads it out on the dining table, securing the corners with paperback books he grabs off the bookcase.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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"With fiction here, most people buy paperbacks, the only market for hardback fiction is first editions," he said.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
Like many people, my garage and closets are littered with the detritus of modern life—from stacks of paperbacks and fancy china to a fussy tea maker, still swaddled in its box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 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
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
Rishi walked to his bag, and digging behind the paperbacks he’d brought with him, he reached to the thing he’d packed at the last minute, without really letting himself think about it—his sketch pad.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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