mass merchandisers accounted for the lion’s share of mass market paperback sales, particularly for reprints—but as sales steadily declined, they too lost interest in a format that produced ...

explaining that Kensington is publishing some general fiction and suspense authors in trade paperback and even hardcover. Still, for books in other genres, such as westerns, mass market remains an ...

The hardback format saw an increase of $1.9 billion dollars (6.2%) over 2017 and mass market and paperback books made $1,976.0 billion dollars (2.2%) from last year. Meanwhile audiobook sales ...

The financial success of the paperback became its cultural downfall. Media conglomerates bought the upstart pocket-book firms and began hiking prices and chasing after quick-money best-sellers ...

Sir Allen Lane was the creator of Penguin Books, which is credited with popularizing high-quality mass-market paperbacks ... He published classic literature in paperback form and legitimized ...