How To Use Paperback In A Sentence
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Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers.
Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
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In August it'll come out in paperback, so it'll be repriced as much cheaper e-book.
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And this doesn't included the sixty billion paperbacks printed every year, half of which are pulped and set to Japan to make toilet paper.
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The book is ridiculously baggy and poorly paced: my paperback is practically cuboidal but in its 700 words pages big events are often compressed whilst minor ones are leisurely pondered.
Revelation, Redemption and Absolution
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The machine, which On Demand describes as an "ATM for books", prints, binds and trims paperback books with four-colour covers, on demand and at point of sale.
Publishing
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We reached rue Oberkampf, and the girl in the black tights was still complaining to her friend in the gray tights as they waited to jaywalk across the street, which was bustling with French students and artists whose bags, I imagined, held nineteenth century novels, or paperbacks with white covers; guitar strings, or paint brushes.
Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz
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Many of them opened bistros or little restaurants with big ideas and some dog-eared paperbacks.
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I'll buy some paperbacks at the airport.
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Hits & Misses is an almost 500-page paperback about a softball team formed to save their school.
Hits & Misses » Comics Worth Reading
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Is it asking too much for the paperback edition to at least acknowledge that there's been some change?
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The young man was reading a paperback novel and sipping a steaming mug of hot, black coffee.
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All books are in good condition, hardbacks as well as paperbacks.
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Publishers are betting that we consumers will not notice this decline in hardback quality but that we will note the closing price gap between discounted hardbacks and regularly priced paperbacks.
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Of course, in its new incarnation, the book is no longer "real" pulp - printed on the cheapest paper, sold for a pittance - but a kind of canonised and reified pulp, beautifully produced and, at Rs. 195, priced the same as an average paperback.
The Middle Stage
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The only complaint is that the publisher might have updated the preface for the paperback edition.
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And a typical stair riser is not more than 7 high, which means nothing but smallish trade paperbacks under there.
Staircase Bookcase
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The book is readily available in a new large format softcover edition from Scribner Paperback Fiction and Hitchcock's film is available at minimal cost from several different sources.
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So he launched a new company which packaged the software in paperback book format and charged lower prices.
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The young man was reading a paperback novel and sipping a steaming mug of hot, black coffee.
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She opened the purse and withdrew a paperbacked bub - ble with a blue derm inside.
Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth
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With the book, now available in paperback, hailed as "spellbinding" by the New York Times, and two others in the same series, _Ragtime in Simla _and _The Damascene Blade_, out in hardcover, Ms. Cleverly has turned to short stories -- this one featuring architect-sleuth Ellie Hardwick.
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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The first two impressions of the report sell out before publication, and there is fierce competition for the paperback rights.
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The paperback stubbornly fought to stay closed because it was new and the binding had yet to be creased.
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The paperback fourth edition includes more charts and graphs as well as a chapter on trading futures online.
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This paperback original is the first publication, with Blackwell Scientific doing a more technical statistical analysis at the same time.
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Its a paperback book that doesn't easily sit open on a table where it is likely best used.
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Hardcover and paperback, spotless and battered, beautiful books and cheaply printed books, crude paper-bound galleys with pages scribbled in mysterious annotations.
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The preliminary pages of the paperback edition give copious quotes from favourable reviews of the book in the major newspapers.
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I'd recommend sticking to paperbacks as not only are they lighter, but you can also squidge a few more into your bag.
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His blockbuster titles have been topping both the paperback and hardback nonfiction lists.
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With the strong arm of Roulette behind them, in July of 1966 "Hanky Panky" leapfrogged "Strangers in the Night" and "Paperback Writer" to the top of the singles charts.
Post-gazette.com - News
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The trade paperback contains all of the fiction in the hardcover limited edition, while the teleplays and non-fiction have been trimmed from the new edition.
Subterranean Press » 2008 » March
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The committee reported early in 1917, and its reports have been reissued in these two paperbacks.
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John Ruskin and the Lakeland Arts Revival 1880-1920, a sewn-section demy octavo paperback of 288 pages with a full-colour cover, will be published on 6 April 2004 at £14.95.
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This essay is adapted from the afterword of the paperback edition of Of Paradise and Power.
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And be still my beating heart, a stunning collection of old pin-ups, magazines and paperbacks for sale on e-bay.
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DVDs, video games, paperbacks, housewares, unopened toiletries, unopened energy bars, even unused bellybutton rings: If it might have otherwise languished in a basement, closet, cabinet or drawer — or ended up at Goodwill in exchange for a teensy tax deduction — it's ripe for swapping.
Sign of the times: Going swapping, not shopping
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This is a small, pocket-sized paperback about a big subject, an extraordinary compendium of facts, figures, and fascinating detail on the most ordinary of topics.
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We can hope the publisher will soon remedy this with a paperback edition.
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Many books that are out of print are reissued in paperback form.
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It consisted of a green circuit board encased in heavy black metal and was about the size of a paperback book.
THE ASSOCIATE
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Prion is rapidly establishing a name for itself as one of the most important publisher of paperback reprints of titles that have become established as ‘classic’ texts.
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A major New York paperback publisher considered a reprint, Hutchinson said, but company honchos later changed their minds.
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The publishers decided not to take up their option on the paperback version.
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Of all British institutions it now appears one of the sickliest," David Hare wrote in 1994, in a Charter 88 paperback called The Power and the Throne.
Gone are the days of rejoicing over a royal wedding
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Firstly, he constantly used books - not just pamphlets and paperbacks but great volumes, some of them written centuries ago.
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Its wrong, though, to hit an airport without an airport novel, one of those well-thumbed paperbacks bankrupt of literary merit.
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Folding down the corners of pages, scribbling in margins and breaking the spines of paperbacks are signs of a barbarian.
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The handsome, lavishly illustrated catalogue costs ￡19.95 in hardback and ￡12.95 in paperback.
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The title says it all for the hardcover debut from the author of the best-selling paperback original Married Men.
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The USO is also happy to take paperbacks and magazines to give to soldiers both in the US and abroad.
Donations gone wrong « Awful Library Books
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This paperback edition has a new introduction and some new illustrations and the text has been updated to include new materials.
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The hardcover edition from Atria Books is scheduled for fall 2003, and the mass market paperback release is scheduled for 2004 from Pocket Books.
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For some people, the abandoned paperbacks they find in their rental house offer unexpected pleasures.
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‘Sherburn's abridgment should no longer continue to masquerade as Clarissa in the canon of English literature,’ railed these critics in 1988, bolstered by the recent publication of the Penguin paperback.
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Working as quickly as Murray and his sub-editors and assistants could do — often 13 hours a day, it was nevertheless five years before the first published fascicle (A-Ant) came from the press in 1884, a “slender, somewhat undistinguished-looking paperback book,” the first of 128 such fascicles that would make up the entire dictionary.
Analyzing Becky Sharp’s Trash
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Abacus has brought out paperback titles relating to two important figures in twentieth century intellectual thought.
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She flicked through a romantic paperback between occasional dips in the pool.
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The India Penguin paperback originals and the HarperCollins-Rupa paperbacks are wonderful to behold.
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Weighing in at 600 pages and combining two volumes in one paperback edition, it also includes around fifty photos and a dozen maps.
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We had one first edition hard cover that stayed in mylar on the bookshelf, but the beat up paperbacks that had been rescued were “reading copies” and would be loaned out to anyone my beloved could foist them upon.
Obsessed « So Many Books
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Let's go back to reading recipes in food-stained, dog-eared paperback books instead.
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It sold out after six months of being widely available, but a paperback reprint is being prepared for the spring by I.B. Tauris.
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A paperback edition of the novel would not now be published.
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NOTHING at a fete should ever be $12! and beware the bloody salvos store in Ballarat where a used paperback was $14, and the counter nong flew into a rage when I said
Fairy beard
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‘Mummy,’ she said to me after her first cuddle with baby brother, ‘felicitations for making such a perfect baby.’ comments (128) about me about the book press clippings petite's paris facebook twitter feeds my first novel is available as a paperback original in the UK and can be ordered here with free worldwide postage
Jack
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Here at last is a small paperback textbook to provide an introduction to the field.
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The romance writer signed a two-book deal with her at Avon trade paperbacks for What a Fool Believes and a second untitled book.
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More superficially, I like paperbacks, modern typefaces and striking covers, though I dare say I should attempt to retreat from my prejudice against anything written in a serif font in favour of more considered judgements on content.
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He was in the city on Wednesday, to conduct a reading session and to launch the paperback edition of his debut book.
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In the 1960s - thanks to the mimeograph machine and the photo-offset printed paperback book - poetry was popular, glamorous, engaged, and confrontational.
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She has also had books published under the Kensington and St. Martin's paperback imprints.
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This new edition in four volumes, a reprint of the 1962 paperback edition, costs [pounds sterling] 9.99 per volume.
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When is it coming out in paperback ?
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The paperback cover is unevenly laminated to imitate broken glass, but so convincingly that the book looks damaged.
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Toward the end of a book's life, before it goes into paperback, you end up with some overstock.
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He said that the publisher estimated that 20,000 hardbacks would be sold at £14.99 a copy and 30,000 paperbacks at £6.99 per copy.
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Admittedly it’s a strange idea to build a book around, but ultimately the project is beautifully executed in boxy paperback form.
Book Review: Taking Things Seriously : Scrubbles.net
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There are too many minor mistakes, which need correction before a paperback edition.
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It now costs only pennies to produce a paperback, and books themselves can often be bought for less than the price of a cinema ticket.
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We can hope the publisher will soon remedy this with a paperback edition.
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Learn how to sew a carrier to make a paperback book caddy in this free instructional arts and crafts video.
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Most of the paperback titles cost £3 - £5, with hardbacks costing more.
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Finally, you settle onto a couch and smile faintly at a middle-aged woman who is reading a paperback on the loveseat nearby.
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It was launched last year in paperback with an initial print run of 7,000 copies.
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Then I re-edited it and it came out in a paperback version at the end of last year.
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A condensed and informative overview of the career of this outstanding German master is given by Peter Blundell Jones in this paperback monograph.
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This article is excerpted from the new preface to the updated paperback edition.
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To cash in on Spillane's success, competing paperback lines sprang up, each trying to outdo the others with lurid, sexy, painted covers and titles like "Say It With Bullets" or "Kiss My Fist!
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Here we have a short - about 130 pages of text - well written paperback that provides a perfect introduction to a complicated story.
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He remembers embellishing a paperback edition of William Burroughs's Dead Fingers Talk with needle tracks in red biro, and as a teenager took up drinking and smoking with gusto.
Sam Willetts: A season in hell
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Elaine Wagner bumps the car door shut with her hip, her arms full with her purse and a shopping bag almost overflowing with used paperbacks.
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Publisher Pete Crowther has done a print run of 300 hardbacks and 500 paperbacks.
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Tara smothered a grin and pulled aside a stack of paperback spy novels to find a blue book titled promisingly enough: The Stargazer’s Catalog.
Dark Oracle
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They're just kind of pulpy, "pulpy" is the wrong word, but they're fast little paperbacks.
TV Squad
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There were no inscriptions in the paperback volumes of poetry on the bookshelf.
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They were mostly old, tattered, and evidently well-read paperbacks.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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Is this what Jeff Vandermeer meant when he titled his aforementioned post about paperbacks and e-book pricing “E-Books and Issues of Entitlement?”
The Real Digital Conflict
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Too, the genre fiction paperback provided relatively easy access to the longer stories in one convenient volume (many longer stories were serialized in the pulps).
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The idea with paperbacks is that they're cheaper than hardbacks, but the publisher is selling more of them because more people can afford them.
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I am SO looking forward to reading your book when it comes out in paperback (I like the bendiness of softbacks plus the slightly lower prices).
Hiatus interruptus
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The paperback edition does not include the grammar handbook.
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My complaint with the book, first and foremost, is the “tag line” on the cover of the paperback (not sure if it was on the hardcover): Has history been wrong for 200 years?
2010 March 04 « The BookBanter Blog
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An unexpected best-seller, "Crockery Cookery" dethroned "The Joy of Sex" as the No. 1 selling trade paperback in June of 1975, providing a clue as to which is the stronger human urge.
Crock-Pot Chef Fed Slow-Cook Craze
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The second Trollopian wave came crashing in with the paperback classic reprints series which were pioneered by the Penguin English Library (now Penguin Classics) in the late 1960s.
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To do this a mushroom spore is placed into a piece of doweling rod and then drilled into fresh timber or put into an old paperback.
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Grabbing an old paperback dictionary she'd been using to keep her desk legs balanced, she ripped pages out to feed the fire.
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But his short stories are available only in moldy old paperbacks or expensive small-press books, and I don't think he's read much these days, which is a huge shame.
INTERVIEW: Andrew Wheeler
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My own only really substantive reference for him is L'opera architettonica e urbanistica di Armando Brasini dall'urbe Massima al Ponte sullo stretto di Messina published in 1979, an enormous and rather flimsy paperback edition of which I purchased in Rome when I was studying there.
The Modern Baroque of Armando Brasini
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The guide is a large format paperback, priced ￡6.99.
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Oh, callooh, callay, and frabjous day, for this beautiful edition of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece of wordplay has come out in paperback.
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The usual gap between hardback and paperback publication of a book is roughly one year.
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This edition was published in paperback this year.
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She flicked through a romantic paperback between occasional dips in the pool.
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The book brawl started fifteen years ago when megabookstore chains deeply discounted bestsellers, as well as other hardbacks and paperbacks.
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On the basis of his track record so far, Porter expects to sell 25,000 hardbacks of Brandenburg, plus 100,000 paperbacks, and to be published in 13 countries.
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Publishers expect to bring out a paperback edition later in the year.
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I bought this in hardback, as is my preference for book, but unlike most hardbacks, it's roughly the size of a paperback book, very similar to the Marvel Age digests.
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A paperback edition is now available at bookshops.
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Many of them opened bistros or little restaurants with big ideas and some dog-eared paperbacks.
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The book is to be published as an original paperback .
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Do you want to see your name on the cover of a paperback in the occult section of Borders?
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To coincide with its release at the end of this month, Orion has just rushed to print the paperback of the novel, which was published last year and largely escaped the attention of the critics.
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She flicked through a romantic paperback between occasional dips in the pool.
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And then I went and spoiled it all by buying this trade paperback.
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Using a record-sized camera they take color shots of the material to be reproduced, etch the exposures so obtained on copper plates, and use the plates for printing by the gravure process on an extremely thin paperbacked film.
2009 January
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Francis Beckett's highly praised biography is now available in paperback for the first time.
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You can, however, fit a few dozen large textbooks into a book reader the size of one paperback-a boon for medical students, for instance.
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This fairly sturdy oversized paperback is printed in blue, with uninspiring cartoons of a cross-eyed kid in a beanie and his anthropoid dog.
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pocket-size paperbacks
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It has also given us some wild cards, unexpected treats that belong on the shelf once labeled belles-lettres but now more commonly known (thanks to Dave Eggers's annual paperback anthologies) as nonrequired reading.
Book Review Roundup
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They will be many different ISBNs against the same title hardback, paperback, audio CD, large print, ebooks etc.
Archive 2007-08-01
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If you'd prefer a quiet drink and a paperback, you might want to consider a more sedate ship.
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The publishers decided not to take up their option on the paperback version.
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A rough guide: modern unabridged dictionaries are usually the size of quartos; most textbooks are octavos; popular paperbacks are often duodecimos.
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Penguin Books began a revolution in publishing with their sixpenny pocket paperbacks, and included in their early lists an edition of Shakespeare.
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Here and there stood entire bookcases full of old leatherbound tomes and great tea-chests crammed with rumpled paperbacks.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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It is a cheap paperback reprint of the second edition of a dictionary, of English as spoken in Jamaica.
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Shooting a film is more risky than publishing a paperback.
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While I was waiting for the last item to go through cheque clearance I put a paperback book up, just to try the market.
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A wooden stairway led up from the kitchen, each step piled with old paperbacks.
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The cover of the hardback is lovely, but apparently this is being held responsible for the book not having met its expectations (code for marketing budget?) in hardback, so the jacket will be receiving a lot of design attention for the paperback.
June 2007
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The book, available in paperback and limited edition hardback, is published by Xanadu on September 16.
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I began collecting them as second-hand paperbacks and then updated them: first as new paperbacks, then as hardbacks and finally, first editions.
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What we lose in cost per unit profitability will be made up by the volume movable at these prices, especially when trade paperback republication is factored in.
The Codex Continual » Bulwark Publishing: Kharndam Collected (#2)
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They found paperback books with his wife's name on them, the Utah map and what they referred to as a "testament.
The Seattle Times
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And you might want to pick up a copy of The Australian Oxford Paperback Dictionary I own the second edition; it has an entry "tich = TITCHY.
Languagehat.com: TITCHY.
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Most of what I do is chapbooks so it's great to have someone pay to put out a paperback once a year.
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His 1950s paperback on the case was given a cover of maximum luridness.
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Somewhere under my bed among the dust bunnies, is a ragged-out paperback of Emily's magnum opus.
Why your favorite author's like pesto
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The only Shulman that comes to mind is the co-author of 'Of Bridles and Burnings: The Punishment of Women', I only remember this because, when the book went to paperback a few years later, the 'Punishment of Women' was removed from the title, in order to precure a more sales-friendly title.
THE TEMPTRESS by Sandra Shulman (Paperback Library 1971)
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I think that it came after Lord of Light (I can check later), but I have this grotty old paperback copy of a book called "Changeling".
REVIEW: Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny
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The SIU Press doesn't do trade paperbacks for a minimum of 16 months after first casebound editionwhich, come to think of it, is about now.
A bundle of joy.....
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She dug through her bag, fishing out a paperback book and a magazine.
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No, no, no … the appeal of Twilight is that it gives the appearance of a lust-filled dimestore paperback that might have Fabio on the cover, but actually only goes so far as TALKING about wanton romps in the forest.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » What’s the appeal of Twilight?
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The man who invented foil-embossed paperback covers. Aids activists.
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Frum, a ready self-depreciator, predicted a definitive Republican defeat in the presidential elections last year, and his latest book,, out in paperback on Inauguration Day, challenges Republicans to take more moderate positions
Guernica Magazine
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The book was taken to the bosom of America, was a No. 1 best-seller last year and is still on the best-selling lists in hardcover and paperback.
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The Secret Service says it questioned and released an "overexuberant" fan of President Barack Obama who had tossed a paperback book near the president at a Philadelphia rally on Sunday.
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Before Patti Smith earned the name the godmother of punk, she was - well, that's the subject of her memoir, "Just Kids," which is a National Book Award Finalist and is out next week in paperback.
Patti Smith And Robert Mapplethorpe: Kindred Spirits
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My favorite anecdotes in the book concern another old hero of mine, Norbert Wiener, who coined the term "cybernetics" and whose decidedly non-commercial The Human Use of Human Beings was published in paperback by Jason Epstein as an Anchor book.
The Believer
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Rhea handed him a thick paperback book with dog-eared corners.
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‘The King’ is a wonderful book; when it comes out in paperback (or in a lower-priced hardcover edition) grab a copy as fast as you can!
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However, a paperback edition was published in 2001, and hopefully its appearance means that the book has enjoyed something of the success it certainly deserves.
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The paperback cover is unevenly laminated to imitate broken glass, but so convincingly that the book looks damaged.
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As far as ‘pornography’ was concerned, the most obvious targets were the publishers of the paperback originals who had come into being since the end of the war.
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There are reprints of popular titles in colourful paperbacks at special prices.
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What's the problem with paperback book bindings these days?
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Paperbacks are cheaper than hardbacks; that is surely their main advantage.
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Graham tossed the paperback on to the opposite couchette and made his way to the dining car.
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Prime's reissuing the whole series in trade paperback.
Odin's Day
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My next release from Subterranean Press will be the new trade-paperback edition of Alabaster in April (by the way, I love that on a search for the word "alabaster" on Google, out of 4,880,000 hits, this book comes in at sixth place).
"I have an angry libido."
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But, at least in my case, it takes a couple of days to get through even an airport paperback.
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The surprise came when I went to www. amazon.com to see if there was a paperback edition and found, along with the expected rave from a librarian, a couple of attacks by parents on the poor moral “value systems” of the book.
2006 November 18 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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They were confident that the book would sell well; indeed it appeared on the New York Times paperback best-seller list in October, if only for a week.
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Ask friends what's worked for them or buy a paperback that offers a realistic diet and know you can keep to.
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It is safe to assume that the stories were written over much the same time period as the novel; they are now published as a companion to the paperback version of The Fortress Of Solitude.
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The usual gap between hardback and paperback publication of a book is roughly one year.
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It's a pocket-size paperback, but it's chock-full of wonderful things.
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Pimlico, noted for its paperback editions of previously published hardbacks, is making a name for itself in its ‘Pimlico Original’ series.
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I don't want a nice hardback book (that could just end up as a valuable first edition one day, who knows) complete with electronic gadgetry and when I checked on the handful of Morpurgo paperbacks I had chosen and found the same, I put them all back on the shelf and walked round to WHS for undefaced copies.
A book I almost bought...
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The first two impressions of the report sell out before publication, and there is fierce competition for the paperback rights.
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The only moan that I have about the book is that the Sceptre paperback version had print so small that it had me reaching for my reading glasses, and one of the least inspiring cover designs I've seen on a paperback in yonks.
A Set Of Russian Dolls
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The present volume is the paperback edition of a book which first appeared in 1990.
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It is a small paperback book easily available and still in print.
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The book brawl started fifteen years ago when megabookstore chains deeply discounted bestsellers, as well as other hardbacks and paperbacks.
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And be still my beating heart, a stunning collection of old pin-ups, magazines and paperbacks for sale on e-bay.
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Too large for a religious tract, decidedly more elegant than the standard municipal report, it could fit easily within a line of paperbacks strung along the sides of a railway station book kiosk.
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Although the hardcover edition of Everything was in black and white, the concept was the same as this paperback version, and I noticed it immediately when it hit the stands.
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Her most recent potboiler was one of last year's bestselling paperbacks.
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He says the Flyer was designed to weigh the same as the average paperback book 420 grammes, about half the weight of an iPad, and will be far smaller.
Smartphone competition heats up as HTC closes in on Apple
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Of course he would never have been able to discard a used sheet and his would have looked like an enormous, dog-eared paperback after about a week.
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That being said, the monthly paperback column does palliate this a bit.
Catherine McKenzie: Ron Charles Talks Totally Hip Book Reviews and More
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Still, the hardback was never reissued, and no paperback has appeared.
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Book clubs picked up on it, and soon she was our bestselling paperback of 2006 and outselling Kite Runner, after some hard work on her part.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Is your online presence serving you? An important Q&A about Amazon and indie bookstores.
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Adam went over to the desk where Kenny was reading a paperback science-fiction novel.
LOST SUMMER
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The novel has just come out in paperback.
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The revised paperback edition came out in 2003 and includes an afterword, on which this article in based.
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I'm not talking about quickie paperbacks, the kind that publishers toss off in a matter of weeks in response to an event or news story that captures the popular imagination.
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This reader friendliness is present in the format: rather than use A4 paper it is the size of a paperback.
