Meanings of mass-market paperback in English

Irish Fiction: The psychology of book-packaging, particularly of the mass-market paperback, has become shamelessly blatant.

As a result, Ballantine plans to push Sherman's book not as a trade book, but as a mass-market paperback, planting it in supermarket check-out aisles.

Amazon is a company focused on selling anything and everything, from mass-market paperbacks to infrastructure-as-a-service, or IaaS.

Little kids' books with loose signatures, ancient first-edition hardcovers, outsized novelty art books, mass-market paperbacks, reference books as thick as cinderblocks.

In the past hundred years, the advent of mass-market paperbacks, radio, film and television have all been viewed as dooming the novel.