The squat little paperbacks once crammed into drugstore racks are vanishing, and the industry now says the format's long run is effectively over. After nearly a century in wide circulation, mass ...
The format is credited with making books more accessible with lower prices, a standard size and omnipresent availability.
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — A staple of reading life and grocery store checkout lanes breathed its last three weeks ago. The mass market paperback — or, as they used to be called, just “paperback” — is no ...