Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years, mass-market paperbacks have been credited with making books more accessible and affordable. The wee books could be ...

There was a time when you could walk into any drugstore or grocery store and pick up a paperback book from one of those spinning racks. You know, your Stephen Kings, the bestsellers like "Jaws," the ...

We were walking our dogs when Karen told me the mass-market paperback--the familiar 5-by-7-inch book you could slip into the back pocket of a pair of jeans -- was dead. It took a moment to understand ...

It is the end of an era for the paperback books that reached generations of readers with their affordable prices, convenient size and reliable ubiquity. At the end of 2025, ReaderLink, one of the ...

Book lovers are feeling the squeeze as book prices climb, and publishers peel away from the cheaper mass market paperback. The New York Times recently noted the disappearance of cheap books you could ...

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