We must end 2025 with a final farewell in the world of books. Rest in peace, mass market paperbacks. As reported by Publishers Weekly, book distributor ReaderLink will “stop distributing mass market ...

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 ...

What is so appealing about the traditionally printed paperback novel? Is it the paperbacks portability? Most paperbacks are smaller than the average trade or hardback novel, making them easier to hold ...

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with publisher Esther Margolis about the end of the era of mass market paperbacks. These inexpensively made books were once staples in most grocery and drug stores.

A searing novel about teenage outcasts in Japan, a collection that gathers the writing of a trailblazing Black feminist and a reckoning with the morally deplorable jobs kept out of sight and out of ...

Between the World Cup arriving in Seattle in June and the midterm elections happening in November, 2026 promises to be a year full of wild distractions. But the good news is that you don’t have to ...