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, ...

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 ...

Using his own capital, Allen Lane started the Penguin publishing house. His plan was to sell quality books for the price of a pack of cigarettes. Central Press / Getty Images The story about the first ...

Jacinth Green goes through some of the softcover books she references when supplementing her daughters’ education at home in Herndon, Va. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) Perspective by Nick ...

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 ...

40 million copies and counting. And that's just the hardcover edition of "The DaVinci Code," Dan Brown's blockbuster that revolves around the premise that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were husband and ...

Pulp. Beach reads. Trashy stories. Romance novels. These are all examples of paperback books. Maybe it’s not the cream of the crop, the stuff they put on hardcover. But it’s something. It’s in your ...

While any bookseller will tell you the rule of thumb is that about a year passes between a book’s hardcover premiere and its paperback release, the truth is that some books take a lot longer to make ...