soft-cover
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of soft-cover
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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Among the latter, Jay McInerney made his name with the paperback Bright Lights, Big City, and Richard Ford's cult reputation was considerably enlarged by his soft-cover novel The Sportswriter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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One of his favorites is "bookazine," meaning a soft-cover book marketed like a magazine.
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But other futurists think the soft-cover business, in fact, may pick up the risks of publishing first novels, new nonfiction and, perhaps, poetry from the ailing old houses.
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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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