Mass market paperbacks used to be everywhere. They’re cheap, compact and easy to slip into a pocket. But the format that once ...

The retailer sees its program as a chance to put non-fiction, particularly by Canadian authors, in front of new readers ...

The diminutive cheap books are phasing out of existence ...

(NewsNation) — Readers used to picking up a mass-market paperback in line at the grocery store or on their way to a flight should say goodbye to the compact editions of books. At the end of 2025, ...

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 ...

Mass market paperbacks are disappearing as sales plummet. The rise of e-books and trade editions has led to the decline of ...

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 ...

The so-called ‘pocket book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US, the latest sign of an ongoing shift in how people are choosing to read ...

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 ...