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Meanings of mass-market paperback in English

Russian
бумажная обложка
Portuguese
livro de bolso
Spanish
rústica
Catalan
enquadernació rústica

Book with a paper or paperboard cover.

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      Examples for "softcover"
      Examples for "softcover"
      1
      I like the black, softcover Moleskines with big pages and no lines.
      NY Magazine
      2
      They were written in softcover exercise books with flowers drawn on the covers.
      The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
      3
      It has to be softcover.
      NY Magazine
      4
      The Nobody is a somewhat shorthand riff on Lemire's domestic epic Essex Country Trilogy, due in hard- and softcover collections in August.
      Wired
      5
      Money will come from new content for which a premium price based on must-haveness can still be justified, much like the hardcover-softcover distinction in bookselling.
      Wired
      1
      The Birds of Britain and Europe by Heinsel, Fitter and Parslow is a Collins publication, softback.
      The Irish Times
      2
      All this comes back when a friend gives a Christmas present of a small, softback book Nature Trails, volume one, by Richard Williamson.
      The Irish Times
      3
      These Friar's Bush productions have been pictorial, mostly in small softbacks of about 80 pages; pictures and captions, and an introduction.
      The Irish Times
      1
      Yesterday a sister secretly put two sovereigns in my wifes pocket book.
      A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. P...
      2
      The next demand made of him was his watch and pocket book.
      History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantr...
      3
      Presently he stopped, took out his pocket book and counted his money.
      The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
      4
      He became furious when Maggie carelessly left her pocket book on a shelf.
      The new yorker
      5
      This Pocket Book includes every word contained in the original, higher-priced edition.
      Space Tug
      1
      Fact, he replied, pulling the paper back up and starting to read.
      Sh*t my dad says
      2
      He opened the gate just wide enough to pass the paper back.
      The pearl
      3
      I finish reading the article and pass the paper back to Oshima.
      Kafka on the Shore
      4
      I hand the paper back to Kevin and turn to the jury.
      First degree
      5
      But I think it's the same man. I handed the paper back.
      Cross Bones
      1
      He pointed triumphantly to a yellow-paper-bound volume sticking out of his coat pocket.
      The Case of Richard Meynell
      Usage of mass-market paperback in English
      1
      Irish Fiction: The psychology of book-packaging, particularly of the mass-market paperback, has become shamelessly blatant.
      The Irish Times
      2
      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.
      Wired
      3
      Amazon is a company focused on selling anything and everything, from mass-market paperbacks to infrastructure-as-a-service, or IaaS.
      Wired
      4
      Little kids' books with loose signatures, ancient first-edition hardcovers, outsized novelty art books, mass-market paperbacks, reference books as thick as cinderblocks.
      Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
      5
      In the past hundred years, the advent of mass-market paperbacks, radio, film and television have all been viewed as dooming the novel.
      The Guardian