You could easily discern his interests: Beat literature, photography, cheesy pulp paperbacks and magazines.
Topkis puts out paperbacks only, with 11-point type (you're reading 9.7-point type) and generous margins.
On-demand publisher Lulu.com has churned out 236, 000 paperbacks since it opened in 2002.
It was a permanent paperback format that would be sold in bookstores, not like paperbacks sold in newsstands.
Frazetta's wild cover art--fantastic, sensuous, a bit tawdry--moved paperbacks that previously had languished.
The publisher, BenBella Books, said "Networking is Dead" has sold about 8, 800 copies to date, including paperbacks and e-books.
Hopelessly devoted to your mass-market paperbacks, or an early adapter of the Kindle?
Giving up paperbacks for pixels is just a little bit down the road.
Now players big and small say that the world's bookworms are ready to dump the pocket paperbacks and do their reading on the small screen.
And so can texting, reading paperbacks and applying makeup while driving.
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In 2010, it was second only to iTunes (tied with Walmart) as the top U.S. music retailer, and its ebooks were outselling paperbacks in America.
Re-written by machine and new technology, paperbacks could become ancient history.
At 10.3 ounces, it is lighter and thinner than most paperbacks.
And second hand bookshops that buy in paperbacks and sell them on at a margin are a form of sharing but they too are not swaps.
Behind the till in the basement of Hatchards, a bookshop in London's Piccadilly, is a high shelf, well out of customers' reach, with a row of paperbacks.
So if newspapers and tatty paperbacks can create new social and political units, for which people toil and die, perhaps the latest forms of communication can do likewise.
There was a time when libraries did not buy paperbacks.
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The low cost of the paperbacks undercut the popularity of pulp magazines and as a result, many popular pulp authors had the previously unthinkable opportunity to become book authors.
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Another was packed two layers deep with science-fiction paperbacks.
It fails to grasp how easily epic poetry is reproduced in the form of multi-volume paperbacks, and how easily those paperbacks in turn are converted into highly watchable films and television shows.
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The publishing house was founded in 1935 by Allen Lane whose big idea was to mass-produce huge quantities of well-written, well-designed paperbacks that would be affordable to every household in the country.
Every two weeks, the town residents put out for trash their hard, nonorganic items: old TVs, broken chairs, boxes of paperbacks, end tables, busted lamps, toys their children had outgrown, and so on.
Reliable and detailed figures in publishing are rare but, for what it is worth, American publishers are reporting strong increases in sales of paperbacks and school textbooks and disappointingly small increases in sales of novels and science books.
Of course, Callaway is far from the only one making this shift -- we've seen legendary newspapers make similar moves, and as e-book stores continue to grow in prominence, it's a given that paperbacks will eventually give way to whatever's next.
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