To get to my study and the Samsung HDTV, I have to walk past the bookshelf full of Penguin Classics, compact paperbacks collected over 40 years ago and read to pieces.
Today, there are over 24 million paperbacks, over 8.5 million hardcovers, and almost 1.3 million Kindle titles.
Publishers Weeklys report in December 2001 on cumulative sales of children's fiction placed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 19th among hardbacks (over 5 million copies) and 7th among paperbacks (over 6.6 million copies).
Hang small paperbacks over a fishing line.
It sold over 100,000 copies in paperback with over one million copies total and was released in audiobook format on September 6, 2006.
Mr. Mehta, who had already built two British paperback houses, took over, adding Vintage to the Knopf division.
The galactic perspective from which she laughed at her characters' earthbound follies could not keep her from waging epic combat with a paperback editor over one poorly chosen word of jacket copy.
I first learned that "romance" was merely a polite literary euphemism for "porn" when, on a sleepover in sixth grade, a friend showed me her secret stash of paperback Harlequins, over which we stayed up for hours, wide-eyed and red-faced.
The Rocket, which has the heft of a folded-over paperback, is a portable screen that displays a single page of text at a time.
When a schoolteacher in clogs handed over a paperback copy of "A People's History of the United States," by Howard Zinn, she was accosted by a neighbor.
