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 ...

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with publisher Esther Margolis about the end of the era of mass market paperbacks. These ...

Marci Pelzer's father Dan left behind a list of 3,599 books he read. The Milwaukee woman is using it to promote reading.

We must end 2025 with a final farewell in the world of books. Mass market paperbacks were primarily positioned as portable, even disposable, low cost and even lowbrow as they were significantly ...

The format credited with making books more accessible via low prices and widespread availability will all but vanish from the publishing scene in a few weeks. At its zenith in the second half of the ...

The decision made this winter by ReaderLink to stop distributing mass market paperback books at the end of 2025 was the latest blow to a format that has seen its popularity decline for years.

I spent most of 2025 reading the way I live—at race pace. Between planes to grands prix, trains through Pennsylvania, and the inevitable long-haul drives for annual road trips, my travel bag slowly ...

Note: To activate Amazon's buy 2, get 1 free sale you'll need to add three eligible items to your cart and the least expensive one will be discounted from the total price. You can also mix and match ...

New, independent bookstores are enjoying a resurgence, with local spots like All She Wrote, Beacon Hill Books & Cafe, and Lovestruck, to name a few. Meanwhile, The Book Rack in Arlington Center has ...

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