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.

FORBES: Why Public Libraries Matter: And How They Can Do More

You could easily discern his interests: Beat literature, photography, cheesy pulp paperbacks and magazines.

FORBES: Ruined Skyline

Space, rockets and science sprang out of the pages of the pulp science-fiction magazines he bought in Woolworths for threepence each, and which he could not always afford.

ECONOMIST: Sir Arthur C. Clarke, visionary, died on March 18th, aged 90

Say what you will about traditional media and the continually shrinking size of print magazines, but we've got some proof right here that good 'ol pulp still has a lot of life left.

ENGADGET: Boutique publishing house les ��ditions volumiques shows us that print is far, far from dead