One of the largest paperback distributors has decided to stop supporting the format, which has been making reading accessible to the masses since the 1930s ...

The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles.

In 2007, Americans bought 103 million mass market paperbacks - the pocket-sized books crammed into spinner racks at airports, ...

The squat little paperbacks once crammed into drugstore racks are vanishing, and the industry now says the format's long run is effectively over. After nearly a century in wide circulation, mass ...

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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 ...