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mass-market paperback

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noun

  1. 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.


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It got republished as a mass market paperback and sold nearly a million copies.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2024

Times best sellers: Check out our mass market paperback best sellers, and see all our lists here.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2022

Literary standards prefer writers who upend a reader’s expectations, but there is a distinct skill in knowing just how to keep people hooked to your mass market paperback.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2015

Ballantine and Bantam editions flourished, and the era of the mass market paperback had arrived.

From Time • Jul. 1, 2015

To reach the mass market, paperback publishers put the product in a completely different wrapper.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2014

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