"It doesn't matter whether the reader comes to us through mass-market or trade paper or hardcover," he said.
Customers can choose between hardcover-bound books with glossy paper, or Premium Layflat hardcovers with matte paper.
WILLIAM H. WHYTE Edited by Albert LaFarge Fordham University Press (Hardcover, $39.95, Paper $19.95) Street vendors sell everything.
On the other hand, Sharon Olds's "Dead and the Living" has sold 60,000 copies -- a poetry mega-hit -- in hardcover and paper.
And the stories published in the New Yorker, and the many volumes in hardcover and paper, and the prizes - three Governor General's awards and two Giller prizes among them.
As a result, he says, no U.S. library has been deacified completely. By the 1980s most publishers had started using acid-free paper, at least for hardcover editions.
"We are going to do quality," Mr. Howard said, "and with publishing African-American classic and buying trade paper rights for many hardcovers, we'll build a great backlist, and it's all in the backlist".
To find the answer, we turned to life-cycle assessment, which evaluates the ecological impact of any product, at every stage of its existence, from the first tree cut down for paper to the day that hardcover decomposes in the dump.
Their output ranges from hardcover books to wrapping paper to handmade books, produced with particular attention to color, printing and paper quality.
Recollections, in Valhalla, N.Y., will scan 50 photographs, print them on 10 pages of archival-quality paper, then bind them into a hardcover book (9 inches by 11 1/4 inches), right, in seven business days after receiving them by mail.
