Remember reading small, mass market paperbacks? For around $7, you got a book you could carry in a purse or pocket. Why they ...

If you're trying to decide between buying a hardcover or a paperback book, there are a few different things to consider before you do. There is no definitive right answer as to which type of book is ...

There’s something about a paperback book, that fading feel of a flexible, tangible book, of buying one used and finding weird notes scribbled in the margins, the musty smell after it sat in a garage, ...

It is the end of an era for the paperback books that reached generations of readers with their affordable prices, convenient size and reliable ubiquity. At the end of 2025, ReaderLink, one of the ...

Good news: Jennifer Egan’s latest novel is hitting paperback shelves this week, along with titles on the beauty and significance of shorelines, the workplace revolution launched by stewardesses in the ...

A travel writer on a cruise is certain she has heard a body thrown overboard, but no one believes her.

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 Amazon digital book juggernaut seems unstoppable at the moment and looks like it would chew up anything and everything that comes its way. It did so with the hardcover books back in July 2010 and ...

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. To avoid an ex-boyfriend’s wedding, a failed novelist attends literary events around the world.