mass-market paperback

noun

a relatively inexpensive paperbound book, typically measuring about 4½ × 7 inches (11 × 18 centimeters), that is distributed on newsstands, in supermarkets, etc., as well as in bookstores.

Compare trade paperback.

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How to use mass-market paperback in a sentence

The novel, which was published in 1963 as a mass market paperback, has none.
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