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A few months ago I found a paperback copy of George Orwell’s “1984” on a city bus.
From Salon ● May 31, 2026
They are often derided for their cost, and customers declare they will wait till the paperback comes out.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
"Then we'll buy the paperback when it comes out," she added.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
The paperback rights for her second book, 1978’s Love Signs, were sold for $2.5 million, establishing an industry record at the time.
From Slate ● May 5, 2026
Then there was a battered paperback entitled Murder at Twelve Thousand Feet, a guidebook to New York, brand-new, with no creases, and a tiny address book.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Trautman never flagged in his struggles with distribution, wartime shortages, congressional interference and intransigent publishers, who first resisted paperbacks and then the notion that they should provide books—at cost—as part of the war effort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
She said their libraries mainly buy paperbacks due to the lower cost.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
The English-language books that are selling abroad are generally cheap paperbacks, printed by American and British publishers as export editions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
A short distance away is a shelf of vintage mystery paperbacks that, when pressed in the correct spots, opens onto a kind of grotto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
The common area has an old TV, a worn-out sofa missing cushions, and a bookshelf full of dog-eared paperbacks and bent-up board games.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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