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

Readers have switched to ebooks and more expensive hardbacks and trade paperbacks.

If you're trying to decide between buying a hardcover or a paperback book, there are a few different things to consider before you do. There is no ...

Mass market paperback books are being phased out and will soon be discontinued. Publishers Weekly reported that ReaderLink, ...

Publishers Weekly reported that mass market paperbacks have stopped being distributed to North American booksellers by the one of the largest distributors.

There's this thing called Paperback Paradise, a page dedicated to photoshopping vintage paperback book covers with funny, ...

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 ...

There’s something about a paperback book, that fading feel of a flexible, tangible book, of buying one used and finding weird notes scribbled in the margins, the musty smell after it sat in a garage, ...

Good news: Jennifer Egan’s latest novel is hitting paperback shelves this week, along with titles on the beauty and significance of shorelines, the workplace revolution launched by stewardesses in the ...

A new book series attempts to revitalize the printed word with innovative design. The Electric Information Age Book Before Kindle and Nook, the mass-market paperback book was the publishing industry’s ...

Some of the best and worst books ever written can be picked up at most U.S. newsstands for 25¢ to 50¢. In the past two years, about 250 million paperbacks, from Plato to Kathleen Winsor. have been ...

The cover illustrations of the drugstore paperback pulp novel have become a lost art. But for the first several decades of the 20th century, many commercial artists created striking images using ...