soft-cover
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of soft-cover
First recorded in 1950–55
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Masquerade is about to be published in a ninth language, Hebrew, and the soft-cover edition will be out in June.
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The merry mailman cannot mangle the thing in your letter slot and twist it into some kind of soft-cover Calder.
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Last week, capping one of the most successful book promotions in history, they sold the paperback rights to Dell Publishing Co. for $750,000, an exceptionally large soft-cover advance.
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The ads will put close to $1,500,000 into the Democratic till, and the party hopes to boost its gross well beyond $2,000,000 by selling hard-cover copies for $10, soft-cover versions for $5.
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So intense is public interest in its findings that a soft-cover version published by Bantam Books is already well on its way to the bestseller lists.
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